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Prey Veng villagers refuse burial for Covid-19 victim


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The body of a deceased Covid-19 patient was finally taken by his relatives to his hometown in Tbong Khmum province after hundreds of villagers in Prek Khsay Kor commune of Prey Veng province’s Peamro district refused to bury him in the cemetery behind their village for fears that it would spread the virus in their community.

 

Prek Khsay Kor commune police chief Ly Chantha told The Post that on the afternoon of August 1, a Cambodian-Muslim man residing in Chak Khlanh village of Peam Ro commune and district had died after years of chronic illness.

 

read more https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-veng-villagers-refuse-burial-covid-19-victim

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Can't blame them.

Dogs dig him up then catch COVID-19.  Then pass it on to the owners.

 

Creamation is the only way during a pandemic.

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