A memorial honors townspeople who have died from COVID-19 in Casalpusterlengo, Italy, Feb. 21, 2021. In Italy and Britain, artists and architects are beginning to come up with answers about how to memorialize those who died from COVID-19. For some, it may seem too early to create a memorial to a pandemic that is still raging. “But I believe that starting from these symbolic places can help.”The Codogno memorial is not the first in Lombardy, one of the Italian regions first affected by the coronavirus. While the Italian memorials have been intimate and local in character, in Britain, there have also been calls for more traditional monuments.

Source: Indian Express February 24, 2021 07:37 UTC