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Health Ministry to revise burial guidelines for Covid victims, says bodies not infectious

The Ministry of Health is to draw up new burial protocols after observing that bodies of people who have died from Covid-19 do not transmit the virus. The revision of guidelines is expected to enable family members to bury their kin in a dignified manner.

According to its daily Ministry of Health Covid-19 Situation Report of September 4, 2020, the main mode of transmission of Covid-19 is via droplets, hence, the family members need to observe basic infection prevention and control and be allowed to participate in a dignified burial for their departed.

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