At dusk each evening, 60-year-old Gertrud Schop makes the rounds of an imposing cross marked out with candles on the grass in Zella-Mehlis, a small town in Germany's central Thuringia state. Each of the flickering flames represents one of the 8,000 people who has died in Germany since March.
Schop is determined to continue lighting the candles “until a vaccine is found”.
“Three numbers on a sheet of paper, a statistic, that doesn’t touch people’s hearts like this installation that grows day by day,” she said.
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