{"id":9106,"date":"2020-04-03T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:38:59","slug":"wb-health-department-issues-advisory-to-assure-that-cremation-cant-spread-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wb-health-department-issues-advisory-to-assure-that-cremation-cant-spread-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"WB health department issues advisory to assure that cremation can&#8217;t spread COVID-19 virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal health department on Thursday issued an advisory to clear misconceptions around cremation of those who died from Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The advisory stated that there\u2019s no chance of COVID-19 virus spreading from the cremation of the bodies as no virus can remain alive in 800\u00b0C-1,000\u00b0C \u2014 the temperatures at which a body is cremated.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory also made it clear that there\u2019s no evidence of COVID-19 transmission from the smoke given out by the electric furnaces during cremation. The main sources of COVID-19 transmission are droplets released through sneezing, coughing or talking, and not through dead bodies, it said.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that if all guidelines for proper transportation and disposal of dead bodies of COVID-19 patients are maintained as outlined by World Health Organization (WHO) or Union Health Ministry, then there are no chances of infection from these dead bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been several incidents in the state in which people living close to the crematorium clashed with the police and family members of deceased COVID-19 patients objecting to the burning of bodies. They claimed that it would result in the spread of COVID-19 in their localities. In some places, even municipal workers refused to help in the cremation process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been protests and clashes over cremating bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[346,301,108],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","tag-west-bengal-government","tag-west-bengal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}