SA’s funeral parlours under huge pressure due to Covid-19 deaths
Monageng Legae says he handled 85 funerals in June and 75 in July, compared with 30 a month this time in 2019
06 August 2020 - 12:30
Behind Monageng Legae's funeral parlour in Soweto sits a refrigerated shipping container made to store chilled goods. Now it stores bodies.
Funeral businesses such as Legae's Sopema Funerals have taken such measures to cope with the influx of bodies into their morgues as the number of SA’s coronavirus cases rise above 500,000, with deaths at about 9,000...
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