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Pathologists: Even the dead can infect the living with virus

Medical specialists wearing protective gear push a stretcher towards an ambulance while relocating a non-transparent bag, which presumably contains a human body, outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia April 20, 2020. [REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov]

It is possible for one to contract coronavirus from the body of a person who has died from Covid-19, a pathologist has said.

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