The director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that the burial of someone who died from COVID-19 is not as risky as that of Lassa fever or Ebola.
Ihekweazu stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja.
“We have released an advisory on burials for COVID-19, but it doesn’t have the same level of infectivity of Lassa or Ebola because it is not transmitted through body fluids, but it is a viral infection and transmitted through the respiratory tract.
“It doesn’t die with the person. The virus survives a while. We still advise on a fairly safe burial but the risks are not as high as Lassa and Ebola,” he said.
