A macabre dimension from his time coronavirus is surfacing these days and is expected to appear more frequently from now on.

In the New Cemetery her Larisa cases in which the effort was initiated are recorded exhumation dead, who had been declared as victims of Covid-19, but stopped at the beginning, as it was found that the decomposition of bodies.

This issue concerns not only the Municipality of Larissa, but many other Municipalities and will further burden the saturation of cemeteries, as the dead who “left” from coronavirus will remain for much longer than the usual estimate.

This happens for two reasons. One is the fact that the dead are found in plastic bags. Sometimes in one, often in two sacks, but there are also cases in which they were placed in a triple sack when transported from the morgue. This, after all, was a directive followed by hospitals and without any intervention from funeral homes.

The second reason is that even the coffins they were wrapped in a plastic bag. Most funeral parlors were taking this action, which they apparently did for the greater good security of relatives and friends, with the aim of not spreading the virus. Even more so in the early years when there was a great deal of ignorance in how to manage the whole situation.

The newspaper “Eleftheria” came into contact with both employees of the cemetery department of Larissa and funeral office professionals, who confirmed the incidents.

“Something like this”, they said, “will happen even more often now, because the three years from the death of the first ones who were declared to be from coronavirus”.

According to the regulations of the cemeteries, the relatives are notified three years after the burial exhumation and they have the right to request an extension of up to five years. From then on, however, the Municipal Services can proceed with excavations.

“It’s a matter of physics, that’s why the decomposition of the body cannot proceed. In some cases the nylon there are so many that the coffin has not even been tampered with. In others again, the bags are closed and the required air cannot enter for the decomposition to proceed” say workers.

In these first cases that appear, the workers carefully open the lid of the coffins and they tear plastic bags at a minimum, with the aim of advancing the decomposition of inanimate bodies.