The government of Sri Lanka has rejected pleas to stop cremating Muslim Covid-19 victims and follow their faith’s burial traditions, laying them to rest facing Mecca.
Burials were banned by Sri Lanka in April after Buddhist monks spread claims that buried bodies can infect groundwater and increase the spread of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence to back up these claims, and that both burying and cremating people who died from Covid-19 are equally safe.
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