LITTLE FLOW IN CEMETERIES: “IT IS EMPTY THAN ANY WEEKEND”
“I thought I was going to be waiting at the door for some to come out to enter others”, Pepita tells us in the La Almudena cemetery on this atypical All Saints’ Day in which, while the police force has increased, the influx of people has decreased: “It is emptier than any weekend.”
This cemetery is located within one of the basic health areas (Daroca, in the Ciudad Lineal district) with restrictions due to a high incidence of coronavirus But it has not been an obstacle for neighbors from other points without limitations to have been able to approach this year in which the authorities have appealed to space the visits over the days and do not center them on the first day of November.
A message that seems to have gotten through: “As we have a capacity limitation” of 60% “I think people have staggered a bit”, explains to EFE Asunción from the information stand on the coronavirus that the Madrid City Council has installed in La Almudena.
“Last year, days before the saints, it would have already been sold. This is completely different, there were a lot of people everywhere. It was a totally different environment “, states Ana María in one of the flower stalls that surround the main entrance. This year, she says, “It’s not being good at all.” The days before this day to remember those who are no longer there have been “unemployed”: “We haven’t sold anything.”
“My mother-in-law has been at the flower stand for 40 years, and we are here like every year. A complicated year, with the issue of the pandemic, the sale is quite complicated, but it is an open site, with great security, always keeping what is the security protocol, keeping distance, a lot of hand hygiene, and at the foot of the canyon “, says Ana María.
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