“We’re going to board!”
“This plot of land has been filled in 50 days, when normally it is harvested in one year”, explained to AFP this 36-year-old sepulcher, employed in the cement of the Alto de Sao Joao, which dominates the Tajo estuary.
The workday of his team of separatists is initiated by the Inhumation of people without recourse from a Lisbon social center, which is a wake-up call due to the pandemic, precise Fausto Caridade, responsible for this cement.
In addition to the funky coat, no familiar appearance, and the cements made of cement are carefully attached to the regular cover for the interiors of coveted walls: mascara, blue gloves, and a blank cover of protection that covers the roof.
Los ataúdes son enterrados uno al lado del otro, open spaces when spaces are available in this section of the cement, donde se alinean las tumbas que solo se onderskei con un número, inskrito en un pequeño cartel plantado en la tierra recién removida.
“Darse cuenta de la reality”
At the center of this section, open until the end of December to accommodate most of the deaths by covid-19, the flower crowns are falling. Más lejos, an orange color excavator available to relinquish its work, to dig more bumps.
“The people who came here should be aware of reality” mourns Maria Joao Costa, who came to enter his mother, died in covid at the age of 80 years.
“And this is what I have done since I was a mother, receiving the first dose of the vaccine” in his residence of mayors, relative, emotional, is in black cloak, while watching the picture of his mother, who is between his years.
Since last year, Portugal has registered a 180-day death toll from coronavirus. At the margins of the micro-states, there are sixteen countries in Europe, and the world, with the balance in relation to their population.
With only 1,500 deaths per million inhabitants since the beginning of the pandemic, it is located across Italy, within the United States or Spain.
Finished from mid-year, the country has seen the number of new contagios, and the number of bankruptcies has been reduced to one hundred per day, over a record of more than 300, per the rhythm of the interiors being very high.
Historical mortality
“There are many cadavers in the morning that hope to be entertained”, explains the sepulcher Ricardo Pereira. And of these ten days of inhumane warnings in the cemetery of the Alto de Sao Joao, the mayor of the capital, the mitad his victims of the pandemic.
In the main artery of the cementum, in the middle of white mausoleums, is one of the three crematoriums of the city that, from the principles of the year, function unparalleled, from the mantle to night.
In normal time, in a month of January, the number of incentives in Lisbon is raised to one day per day. “Currently, it works to its maximum capacity, with more weight” Diary incinerations, indicates Sara Gonçalves, head of the Lisbon Municipality in charge of cement management.
The pandemic has provoked in Portugal a maximum mortality rate due to the Spanish flu of 1920, with a total of 123,000 failed the past year. Nearly 16,000 deaths have been attributed to Covid, more than a year ago.