CityWatch: As death toll overwhelms hospital morgues, governor asks for additional funeral directors

As New York City grapples with the magnitude of the coronavirus death toll, stories are emerging of full hospital morgues and backup refrigeration trucks as funeral directors and cemetery workers cope with at least double their normal workload.

The number of fatalities in the city reached 5,065 on Friday morning, with 1,443 of them in the past 48 hours alone, according to data released by the…

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