WITH public crematoriums being fully booked, families have to wait for more than a week to cremate relatives who have died of Covid-19, according to the Malaysia Funeral Public Association.
Sin Chew Daily quoted its president Kong Thian Hau as saying that crematoriums were unable to cope with the rising Covid-19-related deaths, causing a backlog of bodies to be cremated.
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