Three migrants rescued from inside refrigerated lorry from France after calling police for help

Three migrants are rescued from inside refrigerated lorry from France after calling police at service station to tell them they were suffocating Cambridgeshire Police were alerted when someone inside called to raise alarm The vehicle, believed to be from France, was tracked to Brampton Hut services Three men found inside were found safe and uninjured as … Read more

California orders 5,000 body bags and 60 refrigerated trucks as coronavirus hospitalizations climb

Gov Gavin Newsom said California is facing its ‘most intense and urgent’ stage of the pandemic on Tuesday  California has ordered 5,000 more body bags and put dozens of mobile morgues on standby as the state faces its ‘most intense’ coronavirus surge yet. Governor Gavin Newsom warned of the possibility of thousands of deaths in … Read more

Photos show 50 refrigerated trucks filled with bodies of 650 unclaimed COVID-19 dead in Brooklyn

Haunting photographs show an aerial view of freezer trucks parked along the Brooklyn waterfront that have been converted into makeshift morgues that hold the unclaimed bodies of 650 COVID-19 patients. The sad images show some 50 trucks lined up neatly in the parking lot of the 39th Street Pier in the Sunset Park section of … Read more

Brazilian city Manaus where dead bodies were piled up in refrigerated trucks may have herd immunity

A Brazilian city where the dead bodies of coronavirus victims had to be piled up in refrigerated trucks may have reached herd immunity against the disease without a lockdown, scientists say. Manaus has witnessed a sharp but unexplained fall in Covid-19 cases, deaths and hospitalisations — despite a lack of control measures, suggesting the coronavirus … Read more

New Zealand’s coronavirus outbreak was ‘imported into the country on refrigerated storage’

New Zealand has recorded 14 new coronavirus cases as the nation braces for a second wave of infections. Of the new cases, 13 have been linked to the Auckland cluster which plunged the nation back into lockdown. Just one is a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.  There are now 36 active cases in the country – … Read more

Body bags are loaded into refrigerated trucks and workers in Hazmat suits dig mass graves in NYC

Harrowing new photographs from New York City show body bags being placed into refrigerated trucks that will serve as mobile morgues and workers dressed in hazmat suits burying caskets in mass graves on Thursday as the city’s death toll hits 4,778. The Big Apple’s coronavirus outbreak continues to stagger with 87,725 cases – a rise … Read more

US coronavirus: Workers use forklift to stack bodies in refrigerated truck outside Brooklyn hospital

Outside of a hospital in Brooklyn, workers have been spotted 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. Throughout the day on Tuesday, at least 16 bodies were removed from Brookdale Hospital Center in the Brownsville section … Read more

Horrifying moment dead bodies are loaded into a refrigerated truck with a forklift

Horrifying footage has emerged of dead bodies being loaded onto a refrigerated truck with a forklift outside a Brooklyn hospital the same day a nurse shared a harrowing image of fatal victims of covid-19 piled up inside another.  The clip shows medical staff on the street outside Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene, Brooklyn as a … Read more

New York hospitals set up refrigerated trailers to be used as makeshift morgues

New York City hospitals set up makeshift morgues outside of their facilities to handle the overflow of victims as the coronavirus pandemic hits the Big Apple hard. Refrigerated trucks were seen parked outside several of the largest medical centers throughout the five boroughs over the weekend. Brown tents with medical officials inside who do rapid … Read more