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NATIONAL NEWS - According to the health department spokesperson Popo Maja, the aforementioned burial practices, including wearing of full PPE by funeral directors and sanitising the graves and clothes of people attending funerals are unnecessary.
Maja said the department has on January 26 held a meeting with interested and affected parties in management of human remains to discuss issues pertaining to management of human remains that died of Covid-19.
These parties included the Federations and Associations of Funeral Undertakers and Parlours, funeral undertakers, funeral parlours, provincial managers of Environmental Health, provincial coordinators of Forensic Pathology Services, Municipal Health Services managers, Environmental Health practitioners and National Department of Health directorate.