SAPM Zafar Mirza has announced that the government has issued new guidelines for handling bodies of Covid-19 patients that are available on the government's Covid-19 website.
He said the guidelines were changed after the government found no evidence that the coronavirus can be transferred through dead bodies.
He shared the following points from the new advisory:
- When a person dies, the people handling the body should take all precautionary measures; workers and family should use PPE such as masks
- People should not touch the body directly
- Ghusl can be given to a body by taking precautionary measures such as wearing gowns, masks and goggles; the people involved should try not to let water droplets fly
- A body can be given a kafan (shroud). It should be transferred to the grave in the normal way and the people who lower the body into the grave should take precautionary measures.
