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Vatican City, Dec 24 (EFE), (CAMERA: Antonella Nusca) .- Pope Francis officiate the most loneliest Mass to respect the curfew due to the pandemic.
Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Jul 15 (EFE) .- A crematorium in Santa Cruz, the Bolivian city hardest hit by COVID-19, offers free cremations to help families who cannot afford to bury or cremate their love ones.(CAMERA: Juan Pablo Roca)
Cochabamba (Bolivia), Jul 3 (EFE) .- Neighbors near a cemetery in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba blocked the passage to the churchyard, in refusal to open more graves and expand the crematorium for those killed by COVID-19, despite its collapse resulting in families living with the coffins waiting to be buried or cremated.(CAMERA: Claudio Ábrego)
Cochabamba, Jul 1(EFE).- Farewelling the dead during the COVID-19 crisis has become full of anguish in a Bolivian region where relatives go days with the corpses of their loved ones in their homes due to the high demand for burials and cremations.In an ongoing struggle, people make the daily pilgrimage to the doors of the General Cemetery in Cochabamba, one of Bolivia's main cities, waiting for a response to their requests for burials. (Camera: CLAUDIO ÁBREGO).FOOTAGE SHOW RELATIVES OF A DECEASED SAYING GOODBYE TO THE COFFIN WITH THE MORTAL REMAINS, AT THE GATES OF THE GENERAL CEMETERY OF COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA.SOUNDBITES: AN AFFECTED MALE RESIDENT AND AN AFFECTED FEMALE RESIDENT OF COCHABAMBA (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONS: 1.) They don't want to attend us here to bury my relative. Now there is no place to leave the dead. Unfortunately he’s now in my house, I don't know what I am going to do. Monday, Tuesday and Wendesday - it's been three days already. 2.) Last night the neighbors came and wanted to take out the coffin and kick it out of my house, because they told me that it was a contamination. They came with sticks, I had to beg them to bury the corpse now, but there is no solution.3.) Bringing the body back to the neighborhood is going to be something that will make people come against us -- we are even afraid that they will stone us.
Manaus, Apr 22 (EFE).- In the largest cemetery in Manaus, they have begun burying coffins in mass graves. Enough funeral services cannot be held and public hospitals are being overwhelmed by the increase in the number of deaths and cases of Covid-19 in the state of Amazonas, one of Brazil's regions hardest-hit by the pandemic.Before the arrival of the coronavirus in Amazonia, Manaus averaged 20-35 burials per day, but now that number has tripled to about 100 per day, according to what Mayor Arthur Virgilio Neto, a former senator, told EFE. (Camera: RAPHAEL ALVES). SHOT LIST: FUNERAL SERVICE WORKERS AT THE JOAO LUCIO HOSPITAL IN MANAUS, BRAZIL.
Karachi residents are digging mass graves to prepare for an impending heatwave, as Pakistan steels itself for temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. Yiming Woo reports.
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