COVID-19 Pandemic I Funeral parlours battling to cope with high number of burials

Funeral parlour owners say they are under immense pressure and are battling to cope with the high number of burials they have to perform daily, this due to deaths from COVID-19. They say bodies are piling up quickly and at times they are forced to wait at the cemeteries for graves to be dug. The pandemic has drastically transformed the death-care industry with staff also fearing to contract the virus. Shifts are being doubled, and as one undertaker told our reporter Maageketla Mohlabe and Cameraperson Gqabi Njokweni that "It's not just the workload". Emotional pressure too is unprecedented.
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[@bigsthe10]

This is irresponsible reporting SABC. You can do better. Stop building fear. People are already fearful. Stop adding to it.

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It's reality

[@bigsthe10]

@@kudzai6131 based on a sample size of 1 undertaker? Their independent variable is statistically insignificant.

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@@bigsthe10 Common sense is not so common anymore. People don't want to think, it seems thinking and common sense has become too dificult

[@lienkyolwage1528]

Where the graves use them

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Why the wrap in plastic

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Lienky Olwage
Tender to plastic wrap company BEE