Photos show body bags lining hospital hallways and filling makeshift morgues in NYC, which has been devastated by the coronavirus. (Picture: Reuters)

Horrific photos show dozens of body bags in a makeshift morgue in New York as the coronavirus rips through the city.

The distressing images also show numerous orange body bags on stretchers lining the hallways of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center hospital in Brooklyn. One of the photos shows hospital workers in full protective gear as they take the bodies from the hospital to a refrigerated truck, which is seen to be loaded with corpses in another photo.

New York City rapidly became the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US, which has seen over 320,000 total confirmed cases of the virus and more than 9,100 deaths. Over 122,000 of those cases and 4,150 deaths have come from New York state. At least 2,600 have died in New York City alone, which reported at least 63,000 Covid-19 cases as of Sunday morning.



Health officials have warned that the worse is yet to come for the US, which now has the most coronavirus cases in the world by far. Spain has the second-most with more than 130,000 cases.


At least 2,600 people have died from coronavirus in New York City alone. (Picture: Reuters)

Two bodies on hospital gurneys are staged to be stored in a mobile morgue, put in place due to lack of space at the hospital, outside of the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York (Picture: EPA)

Bodies of coronavirus victims line the back of a truck in New York

‘The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment,’ US surgeon general Dr Jerome Adams told ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday.

‘It’s going to be our 9/11 moment. It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives.’

Dr Adam’s dire statements were mirrored by Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said the Americans need to ‘buckle down’ in the weeks to come.

‘This is going to be a bad week. It is going to be shocking to some, it certainly is really disturbing to see that, but that’s what’s going to happen before it turns around,’ Fauci said on ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday.

Fauci went on to say that strategies to slow the outbreak, like social distancing and the closure of businesses across the country, have had an effect, but they are not enough to turn the tide on the pandemic.

‘I’m not saying we have it under control. That would be a false statement. We are struggling to get it under control,’ he said.

White House projections show that at least 100,000 people could die from Covid-19, prompting health officials to make a plea with Americans to stay home.

‘The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,’ Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on Saturday.

‘This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe and that means everybody doing the six-fee distancing, washing their hands.’