(Houston) In Texas and Arizona, two US states that are seeing an increase in coronavirus-related deaths, local authorities have ordered refrigerated trucks to increase the carrying capacity of morgues.
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The neighboring state of Arizona, Arizona, has reported 2583 COVID-related deaths - 19 since the start of the pandemic.
County officials in Arizona's largest city, Phoenix, announced on Thursday that they had ordered 14 spare refrigerated rooms that can hold up to 294 bodies in all, in anticipation of an increase in illness-related deaths.
Another state that has become a hotbed of COVID contagion - 17, Texas broke a record Wednesday with 129 new deaths in one day, and a total of 3561 deaths in total linked to the disease.
In Texan cities like San Antonio (center) and Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, the authorities are also preparing for an increase in deaths by ordering refrigerated trucks and trailers.
"In the hospital, there are few places to put bodies [...], and we are running out of space. Our funeral home has run out of space, "said Dr. Ken David on Monday at a press conference hosted by the city of San Antonio, whose hospital system is" under pressure, "said Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
"We have refrigerated trucks ready in the region, in case we need them," the mayor also said.
In April, the city of New York, then the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, also had recourse to these trucks which make it possible to store the bodies which accumulate too quickly for the pumps funerals can pick them up directly at the hospital.
The United States totals at least 138 00 0 deaths linked to the pandemic, according to the John Hopkins University count.
