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Covid-19: Rungis funeral home to close due to ebb of the epidemic

2020-06-06T17:31:38.004Z


This temporary center had been opened on April 3 in a hall of the Rungis market to receive the deceased who died from the coronavirus.


It is a new sign of the ebb of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Paris region and in France in general. As expected, "due to the positive development" in Ile-de-France, the temporary funeral home in Rungis (Val-de-Marne) to accommodate the deceased who died from coronavirus will be closed, announced Saturday the Prefecture of Paris police (PP).

In the midst of a health crisis, this center was opened on April 3 in a hall in the Rungis market to accommodate the coffins of victims of the epidemic, pending their burial or cremation. But since May 13, the funeral home "no longer welcomed new coffins to focus only on their gradual release".

Controversy over the rates charged

"The slowdown in the progression of the Covid-19 epidemic, observed for several weeks, continues in Ile-de-France," said the police headquarters in a statement. “Ile-de-France funeral operators are once again able to take care of all the coffins of the deceased. Another temporary "depository", which opened in mid-April in Wissous (Essonne), was also closed on May 10.

Shortly after its opening, the Rungis site had been the subject of a controversy over the prices charged. The private operator OGF, to whom the PP had entrusted the establishment of the place, had finally announced that it would take "all the costs" after being under fire from critics.

Source: leparis

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