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Hart Island

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City New York City
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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. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0. 33 miles wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago, to the east of City Island.

Coronavirus: New York has more cases than any other country

Apr 18,2020 10:02 pm

Mourners to a funeral in Brooklyn, New York , as The City of corona virus-Death Toll -a record sum for a Third Day ,

The State of New York , now more coronavirus cases than in any individual country outside of the United States, according to the latest figures.

The State confirmed the work load of the Covid-19 jumped from 10,000 Thursday 159,937 by it, ahead of Spain (153,000 cases) and Italy (143,000).

in China, where The Virus emerged in the past year, reported 82,000 cases.

it has cases recorded in The United States as a whole 462,000 cases, and nearly 16,500 deaths. Worldwide, there are 1. 6 million cases and around 95,000 deaths.

While The State of New York leads The World in the coronavirus cases, their deaths (7,000), Spain (15,500), and Italy (18,000), but it is More Than double the official number from China (around 3,300).

photos surfaced, the workers in hazmat outfits coffins buried in a mass grave in New York City.

were buried About 40 coffins on Thursday

Drone footage worker showed a ladder to descend into the huge pit, where the coffins were stacked.

The pictures were taken on Hart Island , The Bronx , for More Than 150 years ago by the officials of The City , as a mass burial site for those who have no relatives or families who can't afford funerals.

the funeral operations have ramped up in the midst of the pandemic of a day in the week, Five Days in the week, according to The Department of corrections.

the prisoners of Rikers Island to do typically The Job , but the increasing workload has been recently, through the acquisition of foreign companies.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio earlier This Week The City 's public cemetery for burials during the pandemic.

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

The Number of coronavirus deaths in New York state rose to 799 on Wednesday, a record high for the Third Day .

But Governor Andrew Cuomo heart from the fact that The Number of Covid-19 patients in New York hospitals fell for a second day, 200.

He Said , it is A Sign of social distancing was employed. He called the outbreak a "silent explosion, the waves of by the company with the same randomness, the same evil that we saw on 9/11".

there was Another glimmer of hope, heralded on Thursday as the official projections 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 on Thursday, The Final number of Americans who die Covid-19 in the outbreak "looks more like 60,000".

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

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

But Vice-President Mike Pence , on Thursday, that Covid-19 is 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, a source has imposed a lock on liquor sales by 21:00 (local time on Thursday to stop 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.

"We Are on it, this curfew will be in place, because too many individuals and companies have against the stay-at-home," said mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday.

gun violence in Chicago on Tuesday said the left Seven Dead and 14 injured, the representatives of The City , was unforgivable in the face of The Virus crisis.

"Each of the included beds of which HE shot, the victim could be someone's grandmother, someone with pre-existing conditions, someone who are in danger of losing their lives because of the pandemic," Supt Charlie Beck .

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".

Meanwhile, a court has parts of Texas blocked a ban' temporary abortion, which The State announced last month, citing the Corona-Virus outbreak.

The Order against the "medically unnecessary" procedure was introduced, in order to reserve valuable medical resources for the treatment of Covid-19 just said, The State 's Republican Attorney General in March.

But judge Lee Yaekel, a George W Bush appointee, granted a preliminary injunction against the ban on Thursday.

"As a minimum, this is an undue burden on A Woman 's right to a previability abortion," he wrote in his judgment.

Alabama, Iowa, Ohio and Oklahoma have introduced similar abortion bans.

While there is still no vaccine for Covid-19, American, culture, wars have proven as incurable.

the Legal battles have ensued over the question of whether guns should be closed during the pandemic, and if religious services except to be, of state orders, the prohibition of large gatherings.

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Source of news: bbc.com

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