The health department says covering coffins with plastic is not part of Covid-19 regulations. (OJ Koloti, Gallo Images)
Revised guidelines from the WHO indicate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from human remains to living people has not been proven.
Many funeral parlours have been covering the coffins of people who have died from Covid-19 in plastic sheets in an attempt to stop the further spread of the virus.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane recently said people were digging up the bodies of their loved ones complaining that the plastic was suffocating them.
It is not necessary to wrap coffins in plastic or for undertakers to wear full protective gear at funerals or even sanitise graves, the national health department said in a statement on Wednesday.
Mabuyane: Suspension of certain festive activities helped decrease COVID deaths Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has given an update on the province s COVID-19 resurgence plan. Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane. Picture: @OscarMabuyane/Twitter
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CAPE TOWN - Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane on Tuesday said that non-pharmaceutical measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the province should be top of mind, despite the region showing a marked decrease in the number of people dying.
Mabuyane has given an update on the province s COVID-19 resurgence plan.
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With 9,510 coronavirus deaths, the Eastern Cape has the highest number of people who ve succumbed to the virus.
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Oscar Mabuyane said provincial government engaged Home Affairs and the SA Post Office to ensure their branches do not become Covid-19 super-spreaders.
Mabuyane urged applicants of the R350 social relief distress grant to stop showing up at the province s 156 Post Office branches uninvited.
Home Affairs confirmed that its East London branch s 16 employees were seeing more than 400 people from across the province daily.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane said the Eastern Cape government was concerned that long queues at post offices and Home Affairs branches in the province may become Covid-19 super-spreaders.
Speaking during his weekly Covid-19 media briefings in Bhisho on Tuesday, Mabuyane said the provincial government would assist Home Affairs and the Post Office to manage the queues.
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REFRAIN FROM EXHUMING COVID-19 DEAD BODIES Hoseya Jubase
Comments Premier Oscar Mabuyane has turned his nose up at the idea of digging up graves illegally. Photo by Hoseya Jubase.
PEOPLE who exhume bodies of loved ones who died from Covid-19 have been warned!
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane told
Daily Sun recently: “There are laws that must be followed if you want to exhume a body.
“If the reports circulating on social media are true, we’re calling on people to refrain from doing that and come forward.”
Mabuyane was responding to rumours families were exhuming loved ones’ remains to remove the leakproof plastic body bag.