Revisiting The Pictures of Doom

Bergamo, Italy, March 2020

Remember that dreadful shipwreck of migrants crossing from North Africa to Sicily (Lampedusa)? This took place in late 2013 and claimed the lives of at least 359 people. 

This was the view of the coffins of those who perished laid out in a refrigerated hangar on the Island of Lampedusa:

Fast forward to 2020 and the beginning of the Covid pandemic. In Bergamo, North East Italy, not far from Milan, the BBC covered the images of the sad convoy of Army trucks carrying bodies away to be cremated as Bergamo could not cope. The voiceover is from Beppe Servergnini, a respected Italian journalist who was a correspondent in London for many years.