The Wall Street Journal reports that around 650 dead bodies were still stored away in the fleet of white freezer trucks parked along the Brooklyn waterfront. Officials with the chief medical examiner’s office told The Journal that they've struggled to find relatives for around 230 dead residents. The Journal reports that number of bodies in freezer truck storage has dropped from 698 to 650 from September to November. In New York City, several areas have experienced an uptick in cases and been declared a cluster by city officials. Hospitalizations in New York City have reached 60,547 and the citywide seven-day average on Thursday was 3.07 per cent.

Source: Daily Mail November 22, 2020 22:43 UTC