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Sharp increase in deaths puts strain on Johannesburg cemeteries
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Sharp increase in deaths places strain on Johannesburg cemeteries
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Johannesburg City Parks has moved to allay fears of backlogs at crematoriums around the city, attributing recent disruptions to the violent unrest of the past week. However, the spiralling death rate during this third wave of the pandemic is rattling the funeral sector.
Johannesburg City Parks spokesperson, Reggie Moloi, said numbers of burials and cremations have been “very high” during the third wave. “We had 1,900 burials in May. In June we were already sitting on 3,000. So, you can see the jump,” said Moloi.
By mid-July, burials were sitting at about 2,800. “Clearly, the number of burials for July will surpass those for May and June,” said Moloi. He said this was the worst he had seen since the pandemic hit South African shores.
Gauteng s funeral parlours see spike in clients amid COVID third wave Cremators, undertakers and funeral parlours are barely making it through the day due to the surge of COVID-19 deaths during the third wave of the pandemic. A morgue attendant at the Johannesburg branch of the South African funeral and burial services company Avbob checks the condition of a protective wrapping inside a refrigerated container where bodies of patients deceased with COVID-19 related illnesses are kept isolated ahead of their burials on 22 January 2021. Picture: AFP
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JOHANNESBURG - The brutal third wave of COVID-19 infections has led to crematoriums being inundated with triple the usual workload, while Avbob funeral parlors across Gauteng recorded a 150% increase in clients in July alone.
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