Grieving Indonesians are ‘snatching bodies’ to bypass coronavirus burial rules

Hospitals in Indonesia are boosting security at their morgues, police said, after a spate of body-snatchings by relatives seeking traditional burials for family members who died of the coronavirus.Under new rules in the sprawling archipelago, Covid-19 victims must be wrapped in plastic and buried quickly to prevent the virus spreading, meaning grieving relatives are unable to follow Muslim funeral practices, which include washing the dead from head to toe.Families in the Muslim-majority nation…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3088920/grieving-indonesians-are-snatching-bodies-bypass