The Funeral

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last Tuesday, The Number of deaths due to corona virus in New York City had not passed, that the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The figure was achieved just three weeks after The First coronavirus death in The City .

The outbreak, New York has placed in the centre of the global pandemic, and a sample put lots of burden on The City , rescue workers, and frontline staff.

in The Course of Tuesday, six of these People - Two doctors, an undertaker, Two seniors-Nursing home staff, and a grocery-delivery service workers Kept diaries of their day and shared them with The Bbc .

This is their story.

midnight, Tuesday, may 7. April,

Kathleen Flanagan back from a Late Shift in a Nursing home. The TV is in the Living Room , the play of the sitcom that '70s Show. How did the screams of the custom in your household, you, "to Hello" your family know that you have come to the home and to ensure that you avoid contact with her.

She goes down The Stairs in The Laundry room, get naked and Take a shower.

Everything that needs to worn when working in the washing machine before She sees Her Husband and children.

As She Heads back up The Stairs , you will be greeted by A Bouquet of sunflowers in The Kitchen . A map of your Eight -year-old son is: "Keep kicking butt, Mom!"

Two of her Three Sons are waiting to fall asleep on The Couch on you. You cook eggs and spinach for dinner, and share details of your day with your man the Good News is that coronavirus patients in one of the centres supervised, they begin to look better, but in the other hand, The Situation is getting worse and worse.

you can open to do to the laptop to do some work and sleeps Somewhere Between 01:00 and 02:00.

01:57

doctor Jennifer Haythe is awakened by a phone call from the intensive care unit in your hospital, to your knowledge of a Covid-19 patients whose condition is deteriorating.

The 46-year-old hangs up The Phone and back and forth and rolls around in bed worrying about the patients. You to reconsider The Plan for you, And Then meets the increasingly familiar feeling of loneliness.

Like many medical professionals, the coronavirus-patient, Jennifer lives separated from their family. You live in an apartment in Greenwich Village , while Her Husband and children are in your house in the North.

Faced with an eerie silence outside, and is missing her loved one, She has a deep breathing exercise: "In for Four , hold for seven, Eight . "It must work, because She falls asleep.

02:00

Outside The City , in the State of New York , city of Corinth, Faith Willett, a Director of Nursing in a Nursing home aroused by a member of staff reporting a High Fever . She advises her to isolate themselves and contact a doctor as soon as possible.

Think Back To Feel sick and fights to fall to sleep. You have to scroll to see through your phone, the latest news on the Corona-Virus outbreak, the attention to local updates that may be troubling The Residents and their Families .

In the deserted Times Square , a Muslim woman

pray on Tuesday, The message feels so surreal that the 46-year-old asks The Nurse if She 's asleep. She wakes to ask Her Husband whether or not She is dreaming. "No, babe, you're awake," he replies. He tells her to get some rest.

After a few hours of restless sleep, you Wake up to your alarm clock. She grabs her computer and scans the latest updates from your colleagues. You can breathe a sigh of relief. There are no confirmed cases - for now.

05:00

funeral-Director Steven Baxter is already out of The House . His hours have changed completely since The Virus struck, as he and The Funeral of the workers in New York fight with The Rising number of dead.

The Days of wearing a suit to work are gone. He now scrubs" that he can throw then bear ", without the risk of cross-contamination. The Trainer he is wearing to work, are always outside.

He puts a Nursing home, where he has to collect The Body of yet another coronavirus victim. It is The First of several such visits, he will have to This Day .

06:30

Back in Greenwich Village , doctor Jennifer Hayth wakes up to their alarm. She opens Her Eyes with the fleeting hope that the last weeks were in a Bad Dream .

She has a shower and gets ready for work. No dogs are for you, not A Man to kiss good-bye, and No Children to the Breakfast to prepare.

She Heads to a Coffee Shop , where A Woman walking her dog noticed your doctor's uniform, and thanks to her. In the Café, the only other customer - a retired Police Officer - paid for your Coffee .

a care home worker Kathleen (L), doctor Jennifer (C), delivery driver Sarujen (R)

The Cat Stevens song Peace Train come on the radio drives you to work at the Columbia University Medical Center . She has not heard it for a while, and it makes you Feel attracted to. She looks across the highway to the Usns Comfort - a Navy Hospital Ship docked in New York City, where coronavirus-treated patients and thinks, that it seems almost majestic.

Arriving at work, She puts on her mask, coat, gloves, and other equipment for the work coronavirus in patients and Heads for Another Day in the ICU.

07:00

The Nurse Kathleen Flanagan wakes up to a hug from her Eight -year-old son. Before She leaves The House , he performs a dance to The Song High Hopes from The Band Panic! At the Disco.

you hear it again in The Car , the application of the texts to their own lives.

Mama Said , don't give up on you, it is a little complicated.

Had high, High Hopes for a life

As She hears The Song , you are at the traffic light, where last month She received a call that changed everything. A colleague at a Nursing and rehab center in New York City told her that Two of The Residents had fever and respiratory Symptoms , The First signs of coronavirus in each of the six centers, the health facilities they supervised.

they embarked on was to a different center at The Time and was faced with the decision whether to help from afar, or you change your plans and sit at the Front of the outbreak. She turned to her car.

your normal job is not direct patient care. But three weeks later, She continues to Take a hands-on role in the centers with coronavirus patients, despite the risks.

08:45

At the Glens Falls Center, Nursing home, Faith Willett was at work for about an hour and it is already a cause for concern.

Before leaving The House This Morning , you said, your personal mantra aloud to yourself in the shower: "We have. "As Every Day in the last few weeks, She hoped, there were no signs of coronavirus in the center would be.

But as a nurse of a resident's room during routine morning checks, Faith could tell from Her Eyes it was Bad News - The Residents had a high temperature and was always short of breath when reading your Bible .

Coronavirus, the supervisor forced to go to such as Believe Willett, against all your natural instincts

know All the People in the home, this maybe at the end of The Day , The Virus made its way in. Masks must be issued and The Door must be closed to The Resident 's room only with the nominated reference persons in full protective equipment.

the Believe holds The Order .

you should never close a door to a resident's room, unless they ask you - it is a violation of their rights; it is forced isolation; it is abuse, She thinks. But She remembers that She must go against all your instincts as caregivers to save lives.

A nurse in full protective gear goes into The Room to perform The Test . There are tears in The Nurse in the eyes, but they soft as She walks. You completed The Test -packages it and brings it to The Lab . Faith admired The Woman , the bravery, because you will be able to do it.

09:00

Steven Baxter is sorting through the death certificates, and other documents in the case of Gannon Funeral Home in Manhattan. The Phone line has just opened, so he is preparing for Another Day of calls from Families who have lost loved ones to The Virus .

The 53-year-old recently, the chapel in the Funeral Home converted into a morgue. He has a rule: The Dead must be treated with respect and plenty of space. But The Number of digits is hard to keep.

Later in The Day , he will need the bodies of Eight Covid-19-patients will be burned, and hunt down a supplier of the cremation boxes, which are always In Short supply.

It will be about three weeks before the person he collected This Morning can be cremated - the pandemic impacted The System , leading to large residue.

People who are not stop directly to the Front of the implementation of the critical jobs that The Virus is spreading.

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Source of news: bbc.com