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Judi Lynn

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Thu Sep 3, 2020, 06:03 AM Sep 2020

In Peru, virus erodes centuries-old burial traditions



By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO
yesterday

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Every day Joselyn García lights two red candles before a marble urn that holds her mother’s ashes in the living room of her wooden home in the north of Peru’s capital.

She tells her mother how much everyone misses her, and recounts the latest goings-on in the family — the state of García’s online clothing business and how people are handling the lockdown.

“It’s such a relief,? says García, 25, the only daughter of María Cochachín, who worked cleaning offices in Peru’s Economy Ministry before she contracted the novel coronavirus.



Joselyn Garcia poses for a photo holding the marble urn that contains the cremated remains of her mother who died from symptoms related to the new coronavirus, in her home in Lima, Peru, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Burial was a tradition for both Peru’s indigenous Inca culture and the Spanish who colonized the country. And millions of Peruvians would visit their loved ones’ graves at least once a year, many more frequently, to eat and drink and pay tribute to the deceased on the Day of the Dead every November.

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