Forklift used to stack dead bodies of coronavirus victims

A handful of horrified onlookers paused as they went about vital tasks on the nearly empty sidewalks, hardly believing what they saw.

Outside of a hospital in Brooklyn, workers are using a forklift to load bodies into a refrigerated morgue truck in stark scenes that make the human cost of the coronavirus pandemic all too clear.

‘No one should see a body being loaded with a forklift on a public street,’ passerby Lydia Ramirez, 32, told the New York Post.

‘It’s really sad and disturbing to see. At least put up a tarp or a tent, if for no other reason than for the dignity of the deceased’s family,’ she said.

Throughout the day on Tuesday, at least 16 bodies were removed from Brookdale Hospital Center in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, which like other New York City hospitals has been stretched to the brink by the crisis.

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