From Ebola to COVID-19: Reshaping Funerals and Burial Rites in Africa?

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dc.contributor.authorTeh, Exodus Akwa
dc.contributor.authorMaingi, John M
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-17T13:26:22Z
dc.date.available2020-09-17T13:26:22Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA research article published in Journal of Healthcare Communicationsen_US
dc.description.abstractThe coronavirus health crises is really changing the way people say goodbye to their loved ones. This is because corpses of victims who died as a result COVID-19 disease are recognised to be highly infectious and contagious with a great risk of the virus being transmitted by direct contact with the dead bodies.Memorial services are not allowed to be carried out with the presence of the corpse that resulted from the disease. Safety precautions are needed by the funeral homes when working with the deceased body. Some communities especially in Africa find it difficult accepting the health guidelines stipulating burials as it involves breaking their customs and traditions as regards to burial rites. Proper communication and management is thus needed in communities as regards to the methods involved in handling corpses of victims from the COVID-19.The acceptance of safe medical burials of the deceased by communities is a major component in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAkwa TE (2020) From Ebola to COVID-19: Reshaping Funerals and Burial Rites in Africa?. J Health Commun Vol.5 No.3: 7.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2472-1654
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.4172/2472-1654.100007
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20391
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Healthcare Communicationsen_US
dc.subjectSafe burialsen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectLocal communitiesen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.titleFrom Ebola to COVID-19: Reshaping Funerals and Burial Rites in Africa?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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