Covid-19 dead-bodies allowed to be buried in any cemetery

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The bodies of those who died of the covid-19 virus infection have been allowed to be buried in any cemetery in Sri Lanka.

This permission has been granted by the new Health Guidelines issued on 02.03.2022 by the Director-General of Health Services.

The guidelines state that Covid19-bodies should be handed over to relatives and they should be cremated or buried at their own expense and that the government will no longer pay for their funerals.

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