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2021/01/12 15:28 Workers shovel soil over a coffin during a funeral ceremony for a person who died of COVID-19, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday,... Workers shovel soil over a coffin during a funeral ceremony for a person who died of COVID-19, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. In Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, victims of the pandemic are buried in quarantined sections of two cemeteries, angering many relatives already heartbroken that their loved ones died with no or little family contact. (AP ...

Even after death, COVID-19 victims endure harrowing isolation in Thessaloniki, the city in Greece most acutely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Efcharis Gunseer, 84, couldn't see her daughter during any part of a losing battle with the virus, not at the nursing home where she first became ill or at the hospital where she spent several weeks. The staff of the overwhelmed intensive care ward also was too busy to set up phone calls, the daughter said. An aerial view of graves in a cemetery set up for victims of COVID-19, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece.(AP) A coffin lies in a g...