Police responding to an anonymous tip find more than a dozen bodies at a nursing home in northwestern New Jersey, according to news reports.
Five bodies were found Sunday and 13 more were found on Monday at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center, Andover Township Police Chief Eric Danielson tells The New Jersey Herald.
The remains found at the facility are among 68 deaths linked to the home, including both residents and two nurses, The New York Times reported, citing Danielson, other officials and county records shared with a federal official. At least 26 of those deaths were confirmed by laboratory tests to be related to COVID-19, the newspaper said.
A boxtruck used as a makeshift morgue outside the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Facility, April 13, 2020 (Andover Township Police Department)
Police release a photo of a box truck parked outside the home that was being used to store the bodies after a hazmat team removed them.
More than 100 residents and staff members have tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the Times reports.
Ambulance crews are parked outside Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover, N.J., on Thursday April 16, 2020. Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies Sunday and Monday at the nursing home in northwestern New Jersey, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
— AP
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