ΦΩΤΙΑ πήραν τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης μόλις ανακάλυψαν το σχετικό δημοσίευμα των Reuters που δείχνει ομαδικούς τάφους στην Θεσσαλονίκη για τα θύματα του κορωνοϊού. Ο τίτλος αναφέρει: Σιωπηλά, ελληνική πόλη (Θεσσαλονίκη) θάβει νεκρούς και παρουσιάζει ένα βίντεο με τους ομαδικούς τάφους.
Όπως αναφέρει, οι αρχές στη Θεσσαλονίκη έσκαψαν δεκάδες τάφους για τα θύματα του COVID-19 μετά από απότομη αύξηση του αριθμού των θανάτων.
«Υπάρχουν μεταξύ πέντε και οκτώ κηδείες, σχεδόν κάθε μέρα» όπως αναφέρεται
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki have dug dozens of graves for the victims of COVID-19 after a sharp increase in the number of deaths.
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Greece has ordered a second nationwide lockdown after a spike in cases of the new coronavirus. By Thursday, it had recorded 111,537 cases and 2,706 deaths.
Thessaloniki, a city of about one million and where the first nationwide cases surfaced in February, has been particularly hard hit during the second wave.
“We didn’t encounter many cases in the first lockdown .. There were very few cases (then) and it wasn’t every day. These days it’s daily,” said funeral services provider Stavros Chatzivaritis.
“There are between five and eight funerals, almost every day.”
At the Resurrection of the Lord Cemetery in Thessaloniki, on the eastern side of Greece’s second largest city, many new graves have been opened. The Greek Orthodox chapel in the compound conducts funeral services, with pallbearers in full protective clothing.
The silence in its graveyard is punctured by the gentle chant of an Orthodox priest, or by the thud of the shovelled earth hitting the coffin, wrapped in plastic.
There are flowers, but grieving relatives are kept to a minimum and at a distance. “To my beloved,” wrote one on a wreath.