“They came to bury a corpse on Sunday, they came with all the security measures but if the relatives come to buy from a grocery store they will infect us.”
Some 300 residents from around 20 local communities used boulders, burning tyres and tree branches to block the highway outside the capital Tegucigalpa.“They came to bury a corpse on Sunday, they came with all the security measures but if the relatives come to buy from a grocery store they will infect us,” a local community activist told Channel 3 television.
In some instances, relatives were refusing to accept the corpses of virus victims from morgues, even though they are wrapped in plastic, “and the health service has to go to the cemeteries to bury them.” Cosenza said that “the virus is here to stay” and authorities will have to raise awareness about protection measures to allow burials.Authorities say around 40 percent of tests carried out daily are positive.
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