Officials are struggling to handle the high number of people who have died from the disease. So many have died that the city is considering temporary burial at a public cemetery on Hart Island.
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New York City Has Contingency Plan For Temporary Burials Of COVID-19 Dead
Corrected: April 8, 2020 at 10:00 PM MDT
A previous version of this story incorrectly said that the death toll in New York City averaged 20 to 25 people a day before the coronavirus outbreak and is now around 200. In fact, those numbers included only the number of people who die at home.
