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Italy Honors Covid Victims on Anniversary of Bergamo Army Convoy
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March 18, 2021
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3:11Now PlayingItaly is marking the anniversary of one of the most haunting moments of its COVID-19 emergency, the day Bergamo's death toll reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport the dead out of the city because its cemeteries and crematoria were full.
Italian Premier Mario Draghi visited Bergamo on Thursday to commemorate the anniversary.
He laid a wreath at the cemetery and helped plant the first tree for a forest in memory of the more than 100,000 people who have died in the pandemic in Italy.
The anniversary comes as much of Italy is under new lockdown amid a new surge of infections and as its halting vaccination campaign slows down further thanks to the suspension of AstraZeneca shots.
Footage of the army convoy snaking its way through Bergamo's valley roads on 18 March 2020 remains one of the most heart-wrenching images of the pandemic.
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