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Dozens of bodies have been found stored in moving lorries in New York, authorities say, after passersby complained of the smell. The Andrew T Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn had rented trucks and put about 50 corpses inside with ice. One official quoted anonymously in the New York Times said the home's freezer had stopped working. Police were called to the scene and sealed off the area. A refrigerated truck later arrived. Workers in protective suits were later seen moving bodies. It is unclear if these were victims of the coronavirus. But officials and funeral homes have struggled to cope with the huge numbers of dead in New York, the worst-affected state in the US. More than 18,000 people have died in New York City alone, according to Johns Hopkins University data. As a whole, the US has more than one million confirmed cases of coronavirus, more than any other country. "They had dead bodies in the vans and trucks," the owner of the building next door told t

The US has the highest number of coronavirus cases on the planet President Donald Trump has communicated trust coronavirus cases were "leveling off" in US hotspots, saying he saw "promising finish to the present course of action".  On Sunday, New York, the focal point of the US episode, announced a drop in the quantity of new diseases and passings.  Mr Trump depicted the plunge as a "decent sign", yet cautioned of more passings as the pandemic approached its "top" in the US.  "In the near future, America will persevere through the pinnacle of this pandemic," Mr Trump said at his every day coronavirus instructions.  He said progressively clinical work force and supplies, including covers and ventilators, would be sent to the states that are most needing help.  Deborah Birx, an individual from the president's coronavirus team, said the circumstance in Italy and Spain, where diseases

The Stopp Corona app helps users keep an anonymous digital diary of the people they've had contact with In Austria, the Red Cross has launched a smartphone app called Stopp Corona, which helps users keep an anonymous digital diary of the people they have had contact with. Gerry Foitik, from the Austrian Red Cross’s managing board, says the app aims to reduce the strain on the medical services. He says users perform a digital handshake. “Whenever you have a close contact, you can record this manually and anonymously so if you get infected by the coronavirus, you can anonymously inform all your contacts from the last 48 hours, and they can self-isolate to disrupt the chain of infection.” Austrian data protection activist Max Schrems says the app isn’t anonymous - as each person is given an ID number, but he says it doesn’t pose particular problems when it comes to the EU’s privacy laws. “It's opt in. It's voluntary. People have to ask for consent.” Mr Schrems also