Ronald Apaza places a hand on the coffin of his father Simon Apaza (81) during the funeral of the elderly man who died of COVID-19. Five of Simon Apaza's ten children were able to attend the funeral of the well loved patriarch who was walking around in good health just two weeks earlier.
The Vila Formosa Cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, and the site where many of the city's victims of COVID-19 are buried.