The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said bodies of persons who die while undergoing treatment for the rampaging global COVID-19 pandemic will not be released for burial.
He said the Ministry of Health would ‘handle’ the bodies ‘because they are contagious.’
The minister who spoke in Abuja at a forum organised by the News Agency of Nigeria, said “Coronavirus is very dangerous and contagious.
There is no medicine for it yet; and it is not just capable of killing, overwhelming healthcare system, it will destroy the economy.
“In some countries, they are putting dead bodies in big refrigerators, because the morgues have filled up.
“Nigerians should not forget that these are not the types of corpses that can be claimed for burial because it must be handled by the ministry of health.”
