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The funeral is on Zoom, the family doesn’t want visitors

«The funeral will be carried out through an App called Zoom“. Yes, there are funeral and Zoom in the same sentence. It happened in the Lecce area. A funeral was organized on the Zoom platform complete with an announcement on the funeral poster. The goal is clear in times of Covid-19: to avoid gatherings.

Sunday afternoon, a Taurisano, in the Lower Salento, a family organized the funeral of an 89 year old. No handshakes, no hugs, nothing of all that usually happens at funerals which often, in this period, have been hotbeds of transmission.

“Due to the period of this pandemic”, the poster reads, “family members are keen to point out that no-one home visits are accepted, not even by close relatives. The funeral will be carried out via an App called Zoom downloadable on any electronic device. To follow the instructions to participate, with indication of the ID and password ».

From the funeral agency they explained to Republic of having been “contacted immediately by the deceased person’s son-in-law who informed us that he wanted to organize the funeral with the Zoom application because the family members did not want to cause crowds and from what we know the application has been used without problems by those who wanted to reserve, albeit virtually, the last farewell to the deceased person. From now on it will be a way to organize the funeral that we will try to adopt much more often ».

Cases of funerals become due to outbreaks. In Caserta at the end of the year, a man on the verge of death wanted all his relatives with their respective families next to him. Dozens of people attended the wake and funeral on December 27. The infection started immediately: 76 positive in the country including asymptomatic children and external contacts of family members.

As with other religious and public ceremonies, funerals are to be celebrated in a reduced form with a limited number of participants and with distancing measures.

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