HARARE – Zimbabwe, battling a spike in new COVID-19 cases, has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, as part of new measures stop traditional funeral rites that are believed to be increasing the spread of the disease.The announcement stops the custom where families take the dead to their areas of birth for ceremonies and burial.
Police have also banned public viewing of bodies and the tradition of having a corpse stay overnight in the family’s home before burial.“Police will only clear body movements for burial straight from a funeral parlor/hospital mortuary to the burial site,” police spokesman Paul Nyathi said Monday in the state-run Herald newspaper.Zimbabwe, like many other African countries, initially.