WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - An Italian man issued a desperate appeal on social media this week, begging authorities to come collect his sister's body, who died at home after contracting coronavirus
NAPLES, Italy - The brother of a woman who died at home after contracting coronavirus had to issue a desperate appeal on social media to persuade Italian authorities to come and collect her body.
Teresa Franzese, 47, lived with her family in the southern city of Naples and started to show the symptoms of coronavirus last week. Her health deteriorated rapidly and she died on Saturday before the results of a test for the disease was known.“My sister is dead, in bed. I don’t know what to do. I can’t give her the funeral she deserves because the institutions have abandoned me,” her brother Luca Franzese said in a video posted on Facebook.
Finally, after waiting 36 hours, undertakers wearing protective clothing arrived and took the body directly to a local cemetery where she was interred without ceremony.Italy has shut down almost all its shops except food stores and pharmacies in Europe’s toughest lockdown as virus deaths in the country rose to 827 with more than 12,000 cases of the illness confirmed.
Results finally showed that Teresa Franzese had been suffering from coronavirus. Subsequent tests showed that two other family members had the illness, though not Luca Franzese, said Le Iene tv show, which interviewed him.
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