> The drone footage comes from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial s

> The drone footage comes from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals. > Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred on the island, according to the Associated Press news agency. > But burial operations have increased from one day a week to five days a week, with around 24 burials each day, said Department of Correction spokesman Jason Kersten. They always did mass burials at this site. It just increased velocity during COVID. Mass burials did not start because of COVID.