Body bags in high demand as SA's Covid death toll mounts

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It is essential, the health department told SowetanLIVE's sister publication TimesLIVE, that bodies are buried inside a body bag — even if the mortal remains are in a coffin. And this has been a boon for companies who make the macabre products.

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“These must be government tenders and they are certainly not going to existing manufacturing businesses. Either the state has not ordered, or these orders have been made by other suppliers. But we certainly have not seen any of them,” he said.

In the beginning, it took time for him to feel comfortable around the dead, he said. Before he worked as a gravedigger, he thought all burials included a coffin. He soon learnt that Muslim burials usually did not. Now he’s used to seeing a body enshrouded in white cotton or linen. Konyana said that though the 500-plus members of the organisation were busy, especially in Gauteng, he was not concerned about any of the provinces running out of space to store the dead before burial.

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