Lagos State
government has warned that the corpse of a COVID-19 patient is still very much
infectious even after death.
Lagos Commissioner
for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi said this during an inter-ministerial media update
on COVID-19 on Thursday.
He explained that
the COVID-19 virus is still active, hence reason there are procedures by the
Ministry of health before such bodies are handed over to the families.
On management of
COVID-19 corpses,” Our officials from the Ministries of Health and Environment
had been trained to specially prepare such bodies before handing them over to
their families for burial.
“This is to ensure
that the family members were not at risk of being infected by their loved ones.
“Even when people
die of Coronavirus, it doesn’t mean that the virus has died. The corpse is
still infectious,” the commissioner said.
Nigeria has recorded
288 cases of Coronavirus since its outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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