Dead bodies loaded onto truck outside NYC hospitals

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: Dead bodies of coronavirus victims have been carried into a refrigerated truck outside a hospital morgue in New York city. Recent footage shows medical workers as they move bodies to trucks outside of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. New York is the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, with densely-populated New York City being particularly hard-hit. It comprises more than half of the state's infections. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended his social distancing orders until late April Monday as the number of deaths in the state nears the 5,000 mark. Addressing reporters in his daily news conference, Cuomo said that of the confirmed 130,689 infections his state has recorded 4,758 people have died, up from 4,159 recorded on Sunday. Cuomo described the increase as "effectively flat" since Sunday, meaning there was not a major day-to-day increase in the rate of deaths. As the country struggles to contain the coronavirus, the death toll exceeded 8,500, and diagnosed cases over 300,000. On Saturday, April 4, the U.S. President Donald Trump said the country will see "a lot of death" next week because of the global coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. has become the country with the most confirmed coronavirus infections, followed by Spain and Italy, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. (Footage by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)