Italian church-turned-morgue ‘finally empty’ of coffins
Follow Us @
church-turned-morgue
A church in Bergamo that served as an overspill morgue at the height of Italy’s coronavirus epidemic “is finally empty” of coffins, the mayor said Saturday.
Where dozens of coffins once stood, nothing but flowers are left to be seen in a photograph tweeted by mayor Giorgio Gori that symbolises the easing of a crisis that has killed almost 23,000 people in Italy.
As local morgues failed to cope with the number of deaths in Bergamo, the country’s worst-hit city, the Italian army was brought in last month to take dozens of coffins to churches and then to crematoriums in cities throughout the north.
church-turned-morgue
Harrowing pictures emerged of officers in protective hazmat suits stacking coffins in churches.
Bergamo is in the wealthy northern region of Lombardy, which accounts for over half Italy’s virus victims.
Gori said the death toll was much worse than officially recorded.
Some 795 Bergamo residents died in the six weeks since the start of March, 626 more than the average toll in the same period over the past ten years, he said last week.
Only 272 people were officially recorded to have died of the virus in Bergamo, as Italy logs deaths in hospitals but not in homes or assisted living facilities.
The epidemic has been slowly on the decline, with the number of intensive care patients in Lombardy falling below the 1,000 mark for the first time in a month Friday.
Many are urging the government to lift strict restrictions imposed for the country’s two-month lockdown, which is due to expire on May 4.
But the WHO’s Italian government adviser Walter Ricciardi warned Saturday that a second wave of the virus was “not a hypothesis, it is a certainty”.
“That’s why it is very important not to speed up the reopening,” he said.
MORE@AFRILATEST church-turned-morgue
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK church-turned-morgue
listen to the Scream VI theme song!
Simone Susinna celebrates 30 years alongside her brother and Brazilian celebrities
Bruna Griphao's first single reaches Spotify's Top 10 viral hits
Final Fantasy XVI game takes 35 hours to beat if you only focus on the main story
Taylor Swift honors her trajectory through looks on “The Eras Tour”
Rihanna in adoration in front of her son: photos of the baby in diaper, with a sacred jewel
-
Good News TV series2 months agoJustin Bieber and Hailey go to church using a powerful car
-
News2 months ago
Harry decides to appeal after loss of police protection in the UK
-
Good News TV series2 months ago
Preta Gil is the new presenter of TVZ on Multishow
-
Good News TV series2 months ago
Fuzuê: Pascoal is sentenced to more than 70 years in prison
-
Health and Fitness2 months ago
Hyperbaric Oxygenation accelerates recovery from knee injuries, according to USP study
-
News2 months ago
Viradouro wins the Rio de Janeiro Carnival title in 2024 now news
-
Culture2 months ago
the Sub4 Turismo package that we recommend and we go (on the 42 km)
-
Good News TV series2 months ago
Cris discovers Isis's pregnancy. And now?
David Elobisi
April 18, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Wow this is strange
Mgbemena chukwuemeka
April 19, 2020 at 7:27 pm
Awkward
Dorcas Babalola
May 2, 2020 at 8:49 pm
God come and take control of this pandemic
Dorcas Babalola
May 2, 2020 at 8:50 pm
Have your way God
Mgbemena chukwuemeka
May 7, 2020 at 8:01 am
Strange
Anyanwu Bright
May 8, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Hmm this is serious
Anyanwu Bright
May 8, 2020 at 12:24 pm
How come
Chukwuemeka emyvalzuma@gmail.com
May 12, 2020 at 11:25 am
Bright I wonder
Chukwuemeka emyvalzuma@gmail.com
May 12, 2020 at 11:25 am
Very strange right
Chukwuemeka emyvalzuma@gmail.com
May 12, 2020 at 11:26 am
How come first
Chukwuemeka emyvalzuma@gmail.com
May 12, 2020 at 11:27 am
Wonder shall never end
Chukwuemeka emyvalzuma@gmail.com
May 12, 2020 at 11:27 am
God’s grace