Close The Rev. Fabian Fabian Arias offers a blessing over the head of a family member after leading an in-home funeral service for Graciela Ruiz Martinez who died of COVID-19, in the Queens borough of New York. For the first time during the pandemic, Arias performed funeral services in private homes â donning a surgical mask and gloves to join the mourning families, starting that weekend. John Minchillo I AP By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM Associated Press Mar 17, 2021