On March 18, 2020, trucks with the coffins of those who died from Covid paraded in Bergamo.
And tomorrow, exactly four years later, the victims of the pandemic will be remembered in a ceremony in which the European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni and the President of the Superior Council of Health Franco Locatelli will also be present.
March 18 is in fact the date chosen to celebrate the national day of Covid victims, which for some now seems like a distant memory, not for those who live in Bergamo and Brescia and in the areas most affected by the virus.
Perhaps this is also why the raid by anti-vaxxers who daubed the Palaspirà, the sports hall in Spirano, also in the Bergamo area, which hosted the first vaccination center in Lombardy, created harsh reactions.
In Brescia tomorrow all the bells will ring in mourning at 4.55pm, in the Municipality and in public buildings the flags will be at half-mast.
In Nembro, in the province of Bergamo, the commemoration began yesterday with a moment of prayer on Mount Cereto, where seven readers took turns to list the names of the 188 victims in front of the cross planted in their memory.
In the city of Bergamo the commemoration will take place in two moments: in the morning at the cemetery with Gentiloni and Locatelli and all the mayors of the province and in the afternoon with the laying of a wreath of flowers at the Bosco della Memoria, a park-monument to the victims created near the John XXIII hospital.
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