Original title: The morgue in Alabama is full due to the severe COVID-19 outbreak Source: CCTV News Client
The US state of Alabama is one of the states hardest hit by the new crown epidemic. According to health officials in the state, as the number of deaths from new crown pneumonia increases, “there is no room for these corpses.” The health officials had to use mobile trailers to house them. Dead body.
Two of the four refrigerated trailers were commissioned for the first time this week in Mobile and Baldwin counties, Alabama. According to officials, “These are usually only used in the event of mass casualties.”
At least 5,571 children in Alabama tested positive for the new crown virus last week. The state’s current COVID-19 positive rate is 23%, the highest in the country. Of the 2,879 people hospitalized with new coronary pneumonia on the 26th, 45 were children, and at least 5 of them used ventilators.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths from new coronary pneumonia in 14 states in the United States has increased by more than 50% in the past week, while the death toll in 28 other states has increased by at least 10%. (CCTV reporter Liu Xu)
(Edit Wang Yao)
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