Rogelia Blanco, the girl who was mistakenly presumed useless in the course of the pandemic, has handed away


The outdated lady from Xove was buried this Tuesday within the Xuances cemetery. She has died on the age of 87, though an identification error gave her deceased in 2021. The actual deceased was her roommate

Rogelia Blanco is an aged lady from Xove who was presumed useless in the course of the coronavirus pandemic when she was in a nursing residence in that city in Lugo. This mistake went viral everywhere in the world.

This occurred on January 13, 2021, however this Tuesday morning, two years after the occasion, 87-year-old Rogelia was buried, this time, within the Xuances cemetery (Lugo).

Here, two years in the past, she was mistakenly buried underneath the title of ConcepciĆ³n Arias, a 90-year-old lady from Asturias with whom she was confused within the Os Gozos nursing residence in Pereiro de Aguiar (Ourense), to the place a complete of 11 aged individuals with coronavirus from the Xove residence.

They each shared a room, however a mistake of their identification made the residence suppose that Rogelia was the one who had died.

Her kin, with out figuring out that she was truly alive, celebrated the funeral the following day, with the restrictions that had been in place at the moment as a result of pandemic. That is, with the coffin closed so that they did not understand that the one that was there wasn’t Rogelia.

The alarms went off 10 days later when an ambulance took Rogelia to the residence, already recovered from covid-19. It was there that the senior middle realized the error she had made.

Once the authorized procedures had been resolved, the stays of ConcepciĆ³n Arias, the outdated lady who had actually died, had been transferred to her household vault.

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