Video shows heartbreaking moment body of Nigerian woman who died of COVID-19 in New York is being moved from her home amid tears
A heartbreaking video showing the moment the body of a Nigerian woman, a Nurse, who died after battling with the novel COVID-19 disease, was being evacuated from her home in Brooklyn, New York, has been shared online.
Health workers in the county were invited to remove her remains as her family were not allowed to touch it because it was contagious.
Nigerians who reside in the area and knew her were in the background singing songs in Yoruba that are rendered during an obituary.
Quite a number of Nigerians in the Diaspora have died of the dreaded disease.
Watch the video below:
Tears as body of Nigerian woman who died of Covid-19 in Brooklyn, New York is removed from her home….
— Shawntomi (@_iamtomi) May 6, 2020