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>>> LOT OF AMERICAN CITIES ARE
EXPERIENCING A DEVASTATING SURGE
OF CORONAVIRUS CASES AND DEATHS
LARGELY UNFOLDING OUT OF GLOBAL
VIEW.
ANALYSIS BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
FOUND INCREASE IN DEATHS IN
BRAZIL, PERU AND WEAK DOR RIVAL
THE WORST OUTBREAKS AROUND THE
WORLD.
BECAUSE HOSPITALS HAVE FEWER
RESOURCES, THE PANDEMIC IS
TAKING A BRUTAL TOLL.
MANY OF THE GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT
REPORTING -- ARE REPORTEDLY NOT
FULLY ACCOUNTING FOR THE DEAD.
A LOT OF QUESTIONABLE
GOVERNMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO
THEIR STATISTICS.
THE TIMES CITING OFFICIALS SAY
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT
REPORTED HUNDREDS OF POSSIBLE OR
POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF COVID-19
DEATHS IN MEXICO CITY ALONE.
NOW WE HAVE A GRIM NEW REPORT
FROM AN OVERWHELMING MORGUE IN
MECHL COVE CITY.
WE HAVE THIS SKY NEWS EXCLUSIVE.
A WARNING, FOLKS, SOME OF THE
IMAGES WE’RE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU
ARE VERY DISTURBING.
>> Reporter: THEY NEVER STOPPED
BURNING.
BLACK SMOKE BILLOWS OUT FROM
MEXICO CITY’S CREMATORIUM.
THEY’RE CREMATING HERE ON AN
INDUSTRIAL SCALE AND THE BODIES
DON’T STOP COMING.
THEY’RE AT FULL CAPACITY
ALREADY.
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS
STRUCK AND MEXICO IS POWERLESS
TO STOP IT.
FIRST THE CUE TO DELIVER THE
CARGO OF COVID-19 VICTIMS.
THERE IS A THREE DAY WAIT LIST.
IN FULL HAZMAT GEAR, THEY
DELIVER THE BODIES TO THE HUGE
OVENS.
THE COVID-19 COFFINS ARE PILED
UP WAITING TO BE DESTROYED.
THIS IS EARLY MORNING AND
THERE’S LOTS OF COFFINS ALREADY.
THEY’RE CLEARED EACH DAY.
SKY NEWS INVESTIGATED THIS WITH
THE HELP OF STAFF WE VISITED
MULTIPLE MORGUES AND SPOKE TO
AND VISITED DOZENS OF HOSPITALS,
CEMETERIES AND FUNERAL PARLORS.
THE STORY IS ALWAYS THE SAME.
THEY CAN’T DEAL WITH THE BODIES.
THE FRIDGES ARE FULL. THE BODY BAGS ARE ON GURNEYS
THE BODY BAGS ARE ON GURNEYS
WAITING FOR COLLECTION.
IN AN AUTOPSY ROOM, THE
INVESTIGATION TABLES ARE NOW
REDUNDANT.
THEY’RE SURROUNDED BY BODY BAGS. THERE IS NO ROOM IN THE REST OF
THERE IS NO ROOM IN THE REST OF
THE HOSPITAL’S MORGUE
FACILITIES.
IN THIS STORAGE ROOM, THE BODIES
ARE PILED ON WOOD ENPAL ET
CETERA.
WORKERS SAY THERE ARE THREE MORE
ROOMS LIKE THIS MAKE SHIFT
MORGUES.
THE FUNERAL PARLOR WORKER HAS TO
PICK THROUGH THE CORPSES TO FIND
THE RIGHT BODY TO TAKE AWAY FOR
CREMATION.
THIS IS WHAT IT’S LIKE.
THERE ARE SO MANY DEAD IT’S HARD
TO KEEP TRACK AND IN TRUTH, THIS
IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
OUTSIDE, A FAMILY MEMBER ASKED
THE HEARSE DRIVER TO STOP.
HE WANTS TO SEAT BODIN’ SIDE THE
COFFIN.
THE SYSTEM IS SO OVERSTRETCHED,
HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE HE’S ABOUT
TO CREMATE HIS ACTUAL FAMILY
MEMBER.
HE, LIKE MOST PEOPLE WE SPOKE TO
HERE, DOESN’T TRUST THE
GOVERNMENT OR THE SYSTEM.
IT’S BREAKING DOWN.
WHAT IS STAGGERING IS NUMBER OF
PEOPLE BEING CREMATED IN THE
VOLUME OF HEARSES AND TRAFFIC.
IT JUST DOESN’T STOP.
THE CUES ARE HUGE.
>> THEY FLATTENED CORONAVIRUS
CURVE AND THAT THERE IS GOING TO
BE A HUGE DROPOFF IN THE NUMBER
OF DEATHS BEING RECORDED.
OUR OWN ANALYSIS OF 30 DIFFERENT
CREMATORIUMS SHOW THAT ISN’T THE
CASE AT ALL.
THEY’RE ALL WORKING TO FULL