The Pentagon is making an attempt to acquire 100,000 physique luggage for federal emergency administration officers in preparation of an anticipated enhance within the numbers of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, a brand new report mentioned Wednesday.

Bloomberg Information mentioned, citing sources, that the Pentagon already has 50,000 physique luggage that it's going to start tapping to meet the request from the Federal Emergency Administration Company, however that Protection officers try to accumulate double that quantity of latest luggage to satisfy FEMA's request.

"The Protection Logistics Company would not but have a selected supply date request from FEMA however the company desires them as quickly as they're prepared, and the Pentagon is near settlement with its present contractor on the numbers and time strains," Bloomberg reported, citing considered one of its sources.

The Protection Division had no...