Catholic church altar boys walk down the aisle through the empty Holy Rosary parish church with photos of parishioners taped on church pews, as part of social distancing measures amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, at the start of a procession for Easter Sunday mass in Angeles City, Pampanga province on Sunday (April 12). - AFP
MANILA: The Philippine government on Sunday (April 12) told hospitals and local government units to make sure that bodies of patients who died of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) are cremated within 12 hours, after a hospital admitted that bodies were piling up in its small morgue.
An inter-agency task force on the fight against Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus, imposed the 12-hour rule for cremation as part of the protocol for handling deceased patients amid the outbreak.
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