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CPOY 75 International Picture Story Gold: Still in Mourning

Their eyes are empty. Everybody knows someone who died. The graves at the cemetery have been covered in a rush. There’s a before and after the pandemic in Bergamo and Nembro, two cities that are among the hardest hit by COVID-19 in Italy. A restaurant owner has lost 80% of his turnover. A young funeral director had to pick up the deceased at the hospital morgue. The bodies, placed in black plastic bags, were everywhere, on shelves and on the floor. Many people have lost, and they meet at public memorial services for the dead that they didn’t get the chance to say goodbye to. The citizens of Bergamo and Nembro are still in mourning.

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Slide 5 of 8
June 26, 2020
Only the funeral director, the priest and a couple of cemetery workers are present in a video Cristiano Morosini recorded at a funeral and keeps on his phone. He recorded the video so that the relatives could see the ceremoni.
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