Eight people were found dead outdoors during a roughly 48-hour period of frigid temperatures across the city, according to police.

“Just because the storm has passed doesn’t mean the danger to homeless New Yorkers has passed,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday.

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According to police, eight people were found dead outdoors during a roughly 48-hour period of frigid temperatures across the city

The medical examiner has not yet determined their exact causes of death, but the discoveries happened as temperatures plunged into the teens and single digits

City officials said “Code Blue” conditions remain in effect and are urging people to call 3-1-1 if they see anyone struggling in the cold

The medical examiner has not yet determined their exact causes of death, but the discoveries happened as temperatures plunged into the teens and single digits.

“Shelters have relaxed their intake policies,” Mamdani said. “No one is turned away from these shelters.”

The deaths come as volunteers prepare for the annual “Hope Count,” heading into neighborhoods across all five boroughs to identify those unsheltered.

Last year’s count found more than 4,500 people living on the streets when temperatures were 38 degrees.

This year, temperatures are expected to be closer to just 10 degrees, which one advocate said will probably skew the numbers.

“During the coldest night of the year, people who are living unsheltered are often living in places that are intentionally hard to find and not visible,” Dave Giffen of Coalition for the Homeless said.

Giffen said past negative experiences in the shelter system can make outreach difficult even during life-threatening cold.

“It’s even harder to convince them that when people do come to help, that they’re in fact there to help,” Giffen said.

As temperatures continue to drop, city officials say outreach teams are expanding efforts to connect people to shelters, warming centers and medical care. They’re also urging the public to help them better allocate resources.

“If we see one person dying on the streets, then we’ve failed,” Giffen said.

The medical examiner is working to determine the cause of death for those individuals.

City officials say “Code Blue” conditions remain in effect and are urging people to call 3-1-1 if they see anyone struggling in the cold.