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African Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. The phrase generally refers to descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States.

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... Their photo standing shoulder to shoulder with their fists in the air became an iconic image of the fight by women and African Americans for equality and social justice...

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Coronavirus: New York to the mass burials ramps in the midst of the outbreak

Dec 17,2022 8:51 pm

pictures surfaced of coffins buried in a mass grave in New York City, as The Number of deaths due to the coronavirus continues to rise.

workers in hazmat outfits were to be seen, stacks of wooden coffins In Deep trenches in the Hard Island.

officials with burials of high hazards on the site, which has long been used for people who do not have relatives or families that can't afford a funeral.

The State of New York now has more coronavirus cases than in any individual country.

The State confirmed the work load of the Covid-19 almost died 162,000, of which 7,844.

Spain has as 157.000 cases, and Italy 143,600, while in China, where The Virus emerged Last Year , nearly 83,000 cases.

The United States as a whole 467,000 cases and 16,700 deaths recorded. Worldwide, there are 1. 6 million cases and 97,000 deaths.

About 40 bodies were buried on Thursday

The Drone footage comes Island of the Hart, of The Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for More Than 150 years ago by the officials of The City , as a mass burial site for those with

are Normally About 25 posts in the week are interred on The Island , according to the Associated Press news agency.

But the funeral operations increased from a day in the week, Five Days a week, with 24 burials every day, said Department of Correction spokesman Jason Kersten.

the prisoners of Rikers Island , the main street of The City -prison-to perform complex, in General, The Job , but the increasing workload was a company recently through the acquisition of foreign.

It is not clear how many of The Dead do not have relatives or could not afford a funeral. However, The City has the amount of time that it will keep reduced not claimed, remains in the midst of pressure to the morgue room.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio earlier This Week that "temporary graves" could be necessary, until The Crisis is over.

"Obviously, The Place we have used is historic Hart Island ," He Said .

A city upended

Nada Tawfik, Bbc News , New York

has changed The coronavirus everything, About life, and now, it is upending the rituals of death.

New Yorkers have been shocked by the dismal scenes: ambulance blaring car constantly down eerily deserted streets, Body Bags are moved with fork-lift trucks in refrigerated Trucks outside the hospitals, and new trenches dug on Hart's Island burials for possible mass.

The remote cemetery, accessible only by boat, is a place historically considered with care, because its mass graves without tombstones, the only unclaimed bodies.

The City morgues can only handle so much before temporary burials for Covid-19 victims, once an absolute worst-case scenario, be necessary.

funeral-Directors talk openly About how scared and dejected, the spiking Death Toll has left. To buried even before This Week the record-breaking number of deaths to the wait some families had, a week or longer, and burn their love.

The Daily increase of the coronavirus deaths announced in The State of New York on Friday, the 777 - slightly below the record high of 799 The Day before. was

Governor Andrew Cuomo said he took "comfort" from this fact, as well as the further decline in The Number of Covid-19 patients in New York hospitals.

He Said The State was successful in "flattening The Curve ", but it was still on-going "great pain".

On Thursday, another glimmer of hope was ushered in, as the official forecasts for the Federal-wide number of fatalities were reduced.

Dr. Anthony Fauci , an important member of the White house coronavirus Task Force , told Nbc News ' Today show The Final number of Americans who would die from Covid-19 in the outbreak, "more like 60,000".

at the end of March, Dr. Fauci estimated could die, "between 100,000 and 200,000".

mourners funeral in Brooklyn, New York , as The City of coronavirus fatalities, a record sum for a Third Day ,

The 60,000 projection would be the upper estimate for the total number of flu-related deaths in the USA between October, 2019 March, 2020,

But Vice-President Mike Pence , said on Thursday that Covid-19 was About Three Times as contagious as the flu.

The White house previously announced that it estimated that 2. 2 million Americans could die from coronavirus if nothing was done to stop their spread.

Stay-at-home-orders have not closed significant business in 42 States, while dramatically slowing the U.S. economy.

the New data on Thursday showed for The Second week in a row, bringing The Number of Americans out of work The Last three weeks, up to 16. 8 million.

Chicago, meanwhile, an exit-imposed barrier, the stop on the sale of alcohol from 21:00 (local time on Thursday, and the persistent violation of a ban on large gatherings.

to stay The action due, to 30. April, comes after health officials This Week black Chicagoans account for half of The Illinois town of coronavirus cases and More Than 70% of the deaths said, even though it is only 30% of the population.

the Pay of Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York reflect the same racial differences in the coronavirus infections.

Presumptive democratic White House candidate, Joe Biden , growing demands on Thursday for the publication of comprehensive data on the racial pandemic.

He Said it a blow throw a light on the injustice and the impact of the "structural Racism ".

Reuters African Americans are hard of coronavirus -

33% of the people in the hospital African Americans

13% of the US population is African Americans

68% of coronavirus victims in Chicago were African-Americans

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