What explains lag in Covid deaths and funerals in MP? What explains lag in Covid deaths and funerals in MP? | India Today Insight The state government maintains says the higher number of Corona funerals is because even suspected Covid-19 deaths are treated under the same protocol advertisement Family members wearing PPE kits, perform cremation of COVID-19 victims, in Bhopal. (PTI) Reports of a widening gap between the number of Covid deaths that the Madhya Pradesh government is announcing and the number of funerals that government agencies are carrying out under Covid protocol is triggering panic among citizenry. All Covid patients who die are given a funeral by the municipal corporation as per their religious affiliation. This has been the practice since the arrival of Covid to prevent the virus from spreading from corpses to other patients.