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Steps taken for safe disposal of COVID-19 victims' bodies: BMC
MUMBAI : The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it was taking adequate safety measures and scrupulously following the guidelines prescribed for the safe disposal of bodies of persons who died due to COVID-19.The civic body was responding to a petition filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar, which alleged that there were several lapses in handling of COVID-19 victims' bodies in crematoriums at Shivaji Park in Dadar, at Sion in central Mumbai and at the Chandanwadi crematorium in south Mumbai.As per the plea, the staff at these crematoriums are not provided with safety gears like PPE kits, masks and sanitizers.BMC counsel Anil Sakhare told a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and