In several regions of Honduras, residents are preventing the circulation of hearses carrying dead people of the new coronavirus for fear of contagion, said Monday the Deputy Minister of Health Roberto Cosenza. About 300 people blocked a road on Monday between Tegucigalpa and Olancho, about ten kilometers east of the capital, with stones and tree branches to prevent the burial of victims of the disease in a cemetery near.
Last Sunday, “they came to bury a corpse. All security measures were respected, but if family members [infected with the coronavirus] come to shop in a village shop, they will contaminate us, "argued one of the demonstrators interviewed by a local chain. According to this protester, similar scenes took place in other localities close to Tegucigalpa.
Families refuse to care for their dead
Bereaved families are forced to leave and "seek another place of burial" because residents prevent the funeral, in their place of origin, of victims of the Covid-19 who died in Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula, the second city of the country, denounced the Deputy Minister of Health. In some cases, it is the families themselves who refuse to take care of the bodies for fear of contagion, even when the bodies are returned to them in hermetically sealed coffins, added Roberto Cosenza. It was then the health authorities who had to deal with the burials, he said.
Honduras had recorded, on Monday, 1,055 cases of infected people, 82 of whom died. Nearly 40% of the tests performed daily are positive, it was said from an official source.
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