Expert committee to formulate new guidelines for burial and cremation

Expert committee to formulate new guidelines for burial and cremation

The expert committee is scheduled to meet today to formulate new guidelines for the burial and cremation of bodies of coronavirus victims.

Director General of Health Services, Specialist Dr. Asela Gunawardena said that the relevant recommendations will be published early next week.

An Extraordinary Gazette Notification was recently issued allowing for the burial of corpses of covid infected.

According to the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Health, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, the quarantine orders that have been in effect so far will be amended