Even when the authorities have banned funeral ceremonies of those who have died from Covid-19, General Kalil Haché was buried with honors corresponding to his rank at the Christ the Redeemer Cemetery in Santo Domingo.
The Ministry of Public Health has ordered that only the closest family members be present for funerals of those dying from the disease and recommends cremation. Haché would have been 89 years old in April.
Haché died at the Ramón de Lara Hospital in the San Isidro Air Force Base, where he had been admitted a week earlier after testing positive for COVID-19. His wife Elsy Barinas also caught the disease and died on Saturday at the same hospital. She suffered from complications with cancer. She was 82 years old.
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El Caribe
30 March 2020