ITALY
“The church in the empty Bergamo cemetery. Finally”. The mayor of this city in northern Italy posted a photo on Twitter on Saturday of the place of worship, freed from the coffins he sheltered during these weeks of pandemic.
This image and this tweet illustrate the pressure that is easing on this country, which comes out of the acute phase of this health crisis whose death toll is 23,000 dead, more than half in the region of Bergamo, Lombardy, in the north.
It had been 40 days since a coffin had been installed in the church which, at the worst of the crisis, had hosted 140, according to the Italian agency AGI. Bergamo, administered by Giorgio Gori, a member of the Democratic Party (center), is considered in Italy to be the martyr city of Covid-19.
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