Horrifying footage has emerged of dead bodies being loaded onto a refrigerated truck with a forklift outside Brooklyn Hospital in New York City where 776 people have died from coronavirus and 33,000 have been infected. 

The video - which was taken by a bystander from their car - shows the bodies being loaded onto a vehicle. It surfaced within hours of a nurse sharing a harrowing photograph of bodies that had been piled into a refrigerated truck to be taken away from a different hospital.

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There are makeshift morgues and hospitals popping up all over New York City, the epicenter of the virus in the US, including one in Central Park. 

As of Monday morning, there were 142,000 cases of coronavirus in the US and 2,500 people had died. 

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