Dead bodies were moved by a forklift into refrigerated trailer trucks outside Brooklyn Hospital Center, Tuesday, March 31.

The bodies had to be quickly moved out of the hospital to accommodate more patients affected by the new coronavirus.  

New York has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States as number of cases increasing to 75,795 and a death toll of 1,550.

Worldwide, more than 800,000 people have been infected and more than 40,000 people have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

(Reuters/VOA)