Article

Hard lessons from Covid-19 on looking after the dead

English version
Author
Paula Dupraz-Dobias
Publication Year
2020
Region
Global
Thematic Area
Families / Forensics / The Search Process
Topic
Burial Site / Mass Grave / Emergency / Family Needs / Management of the Dead
Access
Open access

Gaps in dead body management have been left badly exposed by COVID-19: bodies left outside homes for days before being collected; family members picking through piles of decomposing corpses outside hospitals to try to identify loved ones; mass, unmarked graves dug for the poor and the homeless.

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