Drone footage shows coffins stacked in a pit in the city, as the state logs more cases than any country.

According to the city's Department of Correction, which oversees the process, the burials on Hart Island have increased in frequency from 25 burials a week to 24 burials every day, five days a week.

A million people are laid to rest on this New York City islet, including some who died of AIDS, tuberculosis—and now coronavirus.