NEWS
NYC funeral homes overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths
12:17 April 30, 2020 AA
Caskets are seen with full of Covid-19 deaths at the Gerard J. Neufeld funeral home in Queens, New York City, United States on April 29, 2020. The funeral home handled an average of seven or eight bodies per week and now are seeing over twenty a day. The Queens community has been one of the most devastated communities in America by COVID-19 New York state, the epicenter of the disease in the country, reported 23,384 deaths and 299,691 cases, followed by New Jersey with 6,771 and 116,365, respectively.