Pentagon seeks 100,000 body bags as US sees yet ANOTHER daily Covid-19 death toll record & 25,000+ new cases
The Pentagon is looking to hand out some 100,000 body bags as hospitals and morgues are overrun with coronavirus fatalities, with the US breaking its daily death toll record yet again.
The Defense Department will first distribute military-style “Human Remains Pouches” from a stockpile of 50,000 units to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and will later seek to purchase more, Pentagon officials told several media outlets on Wednesday.
The request from FEMA comes as the US sees its Covid-19 outbreak accelerate across all 50 states, counting another 884 deaths on Wednesday and breaking a nationwide death toll record set just 24 hours prior. The US also confirmed 25,000 new cases of the illness on the same day, bringing the national total to over 215,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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