Mass graves being dug on New York City's Hart Island! Credits: The Sun. скачать в хорошем качестве

Mass graves being dug on New York City's Hart Island! Credits: The Sun.

Harrowing aerial images shows workers digging mass Graves on New York City's Hart Island. The city's morgues have been overwhelmed as the coronovirus death toll reaches grim new peaks. Around 25 bodies are being buried daily, according to New York's Department of Correction. Hart Island has been know to bury New Yorkers with no known next to kin since the 19th century. Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeast Bronx, New York City. The island's first public use was as a training ground for the United States Colored Troops in 1864. Since then, Hart Island has been the location of a Union Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field, a homeless shelter, a boys' reformatory, a jail, and a drug rehabilitation center. The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, though since the first decade of the 21st century, there are fewer than 1,500 burials a year. Burials on Hart Island include individuals who were not claimed by their families or did not have private funerals, as well as the homeless and the indigent. The island is also a temporary burial site for victims of the COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemics. Access to the island is restricted by the Department of Correction, which operates an infrequent ferryboat service and imposes strict visitation quotas. I do not own rights to the video. Footage courtesy : The Sun.