Coronavirus: Italian Army Sends Coffins to Be Cremated as Cemeteries Fill Up
Italian army trucks on Thursday transported dozens of coffins from a cemetery in hardhit Bergamo that will be brought to and temporarily stored in churches across the Lombardy region, awaiting cremation. The high number of deaths from COVID19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, has caused many cemeteries to have to reject coffins due to lack of space. While funerals are currently not being performed in northern Italy, as part of measures to contain the spread of the new virus, cremation procedures a
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