Covid-19: As death toll rises, bodies wait in queue for last rites


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The high death toll due to Covid-19 in Malaysia lately has caused the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (IPFN) to face a bitter situation when experiencing backlogs in the management of the bodies, as a result of the outbreak and non-Covid-19 death cases.

In contrast to the management of bodies of non-Covid-19 patients, the Covid-19 deaths need to be managed with the utmost care by the frontliners, and expedited for burial or cremation.

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COVID-19 , corpse , forensics , autopsy , SOP , HKL

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