FILE PHOTO: Stones marking mass graves stand on Hart Island, the former location of a prison and hospital that is a potter's field burial site of as many as one million people, in New York, United States, June 23, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City crematories are extending their hours, burning bodies into the night. The state has started a running tally of all cremations and burials. City officials are surveying upstate cemeteries for temporary interment sites.
The destructive spread of the coronavirus through New York has not yet reached its peak, but those who put the dead to rest have never been busier.
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