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New trench for a mass grave at the potter's field on Hart Island in the Bronx

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Read more here and in the following articles linked in this thread for more context. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52241221 2/n

New York ramps up mass burials amid virus outbreak

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52241221

https://gothamist.com/news/mass-burials-hart-island-increase-fivefold-covid-19-death-toll-skyrockets 3/n

Mass Burials On Hart Island Increase Fivefold As COVID-19 Death Toll Skyrockets

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.

https://gothamist.com/news/mass-burials-hart-island-increase-fivefold-covid-19-death-toll-skyrockets

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/unclaimed-coronavirus-victims-being-buried-on-hart-island-long-history-as-potters-field/ 4/n

Pandemic victims are filling NYC’s Hart Island. It isn’t the first time.

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

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/unclaimed-coronavirus-victims-being-buried-on-hart-island-long-history-as-potters-field/

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