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On Mar 14, 2025

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Burial of the ashes of Ginés Ávila Hernández, who died on April 15, 2020. His is one of the thousands of families who had to postpone during the spring of 2020 the farewell to his loved one lost by the pandemic, and with which at the time the country spoke. The photo is from August 4, 2020, in the cemetery of Aravaca, Madrid, while her granddaughter placed a flowers in the tomb of Ginés and her wife. — Burial of the ashes of Ginés Ávila Hernández, who died on April 15, 2020. His is among the hundreds of households who needed to postpone through the spring of 2020 the farewell to his cherished one misplaced by the pandemic, and with which on the time the nation spoke. The picture is from August 4, 2020, within the cemetery of Aravaca, Madrid, whereas her granddaughter positioned a flowers within the tomb of Ginés and her spouse.David Exposito

5 years have handed on March 14 since Pedro Sánchez introduced the alarm standing for the Covid-19 pandemic. He started that weekend of 5 years in the past an distinctive interval in our historical past: the residents who lived in Spain weren’t allowed to go away the home if it was not for going to the grocery store, for important works, or for primary wants as sanitary motifs. The confinement was prolonged and prolonged virtually three months throughout which greater than 45,000 individuals died from the illness, a determine to which the deaths should be added for oblique causes of the disaster.

Those who misplaced their family members throughout that first wave of the virus made him wrapped in that distinctive state of affairs. In many instances, farewells weren’t allowed, and in any burials or different mass rituals. Thousands of individuals died unable to get out of their residences; and a whole lot of well being, exercising their skilled accountability. For those that stayed and cried them, due to this fact, additionally, an distinctive duel.

Psychologists normally lengthen the phrase “duel” to the assimilation of many varieties of losses. And through the Covid-19 pandemic, virtually everybody misplaced one thing: a life mission, a stage of their private improvement, or the safety they felt just some months earlier than. As a society, a fast web page wished to go, a want that clashes with the frequent duel that needed to be elaborated throughout these 5 years.

Credits

Edición: Ana Ribera

Sound design: Nicolás Tsbertidis

Tune: Jorge Magaz

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