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【Editor's Note】
When the 2020 New Year bell rings, no one would have anticipated how bleak the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century would be: epidemics, wildfires, floods, the fall of Kobe Bryant and Maradona... Time magazine put a big red cross on its cover for 2020, and oxford dictionary called 2020 a "wordless year"... As the year draws to a close, the Surging Vision Center takes you back to the heavy year.
In 2020, more than 1.6 million people died from COVID-19. This is not a statistic, but a living life. Their departure, for their loved ones, will be an extraordinarily long farewell and forced to start a new journey of life...
According to Data from Johns Hopkins University, as of December 17, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide was 74167013, and the number of deaths 1647873. The pandemic is raging, leaving too many families torn apart. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fernanda Mariotti weeps at home holding the remains of her mother, Martha Pedrotti, who died of COVID-19, at home.
Maria Bosser, wearing protective gloves, covered her face and wept at her mother's funeral on April 4 in El Padro Brigat, Spain. Her 80-year-old mother, Concepción Morero, died of COVID-19. Due to the state of emergency in Spain at the time, only three relatives were allowed to attend the funeral in order to curb the spread of the new crown virus.
On May 4, in New York, USA, Lily Sage Weinrieb received a covid-19 death and asked her relatives to say goodbye via video before cremation. Lily, 25, works as a funeral undertaker at International Hamilton Heights Funeral Home in Harlem. Before the pandemic, this funeral home averaged 30-40 customers per month, and now that number has quadrupled. From 8 a.m. to midnight, she was very busy every day, often sleeping on the couch in the funeral home.
Teodoro Mejia, left, watch funeral home staff carry the body of his wife, Berta Cusi Palomino, who is believed to have died of the coronavirus, from her home, Lima, Peru, May 14.
On May 4, in Lima, Peru, 77-year-old Ricardo Noriega collapsed on the living room floor after his death, and Ricardo Noriega, who was infected with the new crown virus, died because he could not find a taxi to the hospital and could not seek medical treatment in time.
At a Catholic cemetery in Santiago, Chile, Peruvian immigrant Jose Collantes watches his wife, Silvia Cano, buried in Santiago, Chile, on July 3. His wife died of the coronavirus and he would prefer to cremate her in order to bring her ashes home, but he has been waiting for two weeks due to bureaucracy.
On May 9, in Managua, Nicaragua, a mechanic named Roberto died of COVID-19 while his relatives and friends wept at Miragrodios Cemetery.
An employee buries a person who died of COVID-19 in the cemetery of formosa town, May 20 in São Paulo, Brazil.
In El Salvador, June 24, in the community of La Fosa, funeral workers carry the remains of a man, a 75-year-old victim of the coronavirus, who died while asking for help at home.
In Santiago, Chile, Jose Collantes waited for a red light on his way home on his drive home on Sept. 6 after playing. As can be seen in the rearview mirror, Crantes is hugged by his daughter Kitty. Three months ago, Corantes' wife, Kitty's mother, died of the coronavirus. Those who have lost family members due to covid-19 have been forced to embark on a new journey in life. Photo of this article Xinhua News Agency, People's Vision, Surging Image
Editor-in-Charge: Chen Feiyan
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