Canberra’s bushfire recovery program received a boost with 26 temporary rangers and field officers starting work with the ACT Parks and Conservation Service. The jobs are part of the ACT government’s $20M “Jobs for Canberra” fund to hire 500 people who lost their jobs due to COVID-19.
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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says it is not considering temporary burials New York City parks after a top city official tweeted that trenches would need to be dug in the parks for COVID-19 victims
NYC Council Health Committee chair Mark Levine said in series of tweets Monday morning that the city would soon need to face the “gruesome reality” of temporary burials, and that they would likely take place in trenches for caskets dug in city parks.
Due to the number of dead bodies increasing on a daily basis due to COVID-19, the freezers at OCME facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn will soon be full, Levine said.
