FEMA sends refrigerated trucks to New York City to hold bodies

FEMA is sending refrigerated vans to New York City to serve as momentary morgues as the demise toll from the coronavirus grows.

There's a “determined want” for morgue area in Queens in specific, FEMA regional administrator Thomas Von Essen stated Monday. The borough has probably the most coronavirus instances in the city, and Elmhurst hospital has been swamped with gravely sick patients.

“We're going to have an terrible lot of parents that aren’t going to make it,” Von Essen stated at a press conference with Mayor Invoice de Blasio, as they welcomed the hospital ship USNS Comfort to the town.

As of Monday morning, 790 individuals have died in the city from the coronavirus. There are 36,221 confirmed instances.

As POLITICO previously reported, the Department of Homeland Security was briefed that New York Metropolis’s regular morgues are nearing capability.

“We're sending refrigeration vans to New York to assist with a few of the drawback on a short lived basis,” Von Essen stated Monday. “We in New York City have a determined need for help over in Queens, and we’re engaged on that as we converse.”

The army has despatched 42 personnel to the Manhattan medical examiner’s workplace to pitch in on the trouble, he stated.

A makeshift morgue has already been erected in a tent close to Bellevue hospital.

However Von Essen, a former FDNY commissioner, dominated out having to flip public arenas like Madison Sq. Garden into makeshift morgues. “Luckily we’re not considering of something like that,” he stated.

He stated authorities are working on sending more army teams to New York to assist with the mounting variety of bodies, whereas additionally aiding different places across the nation whose morgues might also be strapped.

“It’s troublesome, but everyone’s making an attempt, and we'll get extra help right here for New York,” he stated.

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