New York City officials say they will soon begin interment plans for hundreds of bodies of people who died during the Covid-19 pandemic and have been stored for months—and in some cases a year—in freezer units in a temporary mortuary
New York City officials say they will soon begin interment plans for hundreds of bodies of people who died during the Covid-19 pandemic and have been stored for months—and in some cases a year—inEarlier this week, a team of 10 forensic investigators in the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner began a final push to contact next of kin for the deceased, the officials said.
Families are being offered 30 days to claim their loved one’s body, according to Dina Maniotis, an executive deputy commissioner of the medical examiner’s office. Unclaimed bodies will be buried in the city’s public cemetery on Hart Island, she said. City officials intend for all of the bodies to be buried or cremated by the end of the summer.
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