Bodies of COVID-19 victims to be cremated irrespective of religion: BMC
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 170 in Maharashtra after 47 more people were tested positive in the metropolitan region of the capital city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said on Monday (March 30).
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 170 in Maharashtra after 47 more people were tested positive in the metropolitan region of the capital city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said on Monday (March 30).
BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi also issued a circular stating that the bodies of all those who died due to coronavirus in Mumbai will be cremated irrespective of the religion of the deceased.
According to the circular, only five persons can attend the funeral of a COVID-19 patient and rituals of touching the body should be avoided.
A total of 39 people in Maharashtra have been discharged from hospitals so far after recovering from the novel coronavirus infection, including 14 in Mumbai, a health official said on Monday.
Giving an area wise break up of those discharged from outside the metropolis, he said nine were from Pimpri Chinchwad, seven from Pune, four from Nagpur, three from Yavatmal and one each from Ahmednagar and Aurangabad.
“All the 39 who have been discharged will have to complete a mandatory 14-day quarantine period from here on as a precaution,” he added.
The city civic body also informed that the sample of an elderly person, who died here two days ago, tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
The 78-year-old person had died in a hospital here on Saturday.
“With this report, the casualty figure in Maharashtra is now 10. Already, a patient died in Pune today,” the official said.
(With inputs from agencies)
