April 9 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said Thursday that many people who have died as a result of COVID-19 will soon be buried in the city's public cemetery on Hart Island.
De Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said there have not yet been any confirmed coronavirus victims buried at the cemetery on the Long Island Sound despite an increase in burials there. But he said the city will begin to bury victims of the virus there in the coming days.