No, dead bodies don't spread Coronavirus: AIIMS clears air after cremation controversy

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) forensic department has issued guidelines for handling any fatality that might be caused by COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the Union Health Ministry is also constituting guidelines for proper handling of deceased who die due to coronavirus.

The AIIMS doctors have clarified that the bodies cannot spread the virus.

"Cremation of the body of a person who had died due to coronavirus has no side effects by any methods using fire or electrical or gas..or by burial. In case of burial the above surface of the grave should be cemented," said Dr Sudhir Gupta, head of forensic medicine at AIIMS.

Health Ministry is also preparing guidelines to ensure no misinformation is spread out in case there is any casualty arising out of coronavirus- a disease which can be cured as well.

According to the senior official at the health ministry, "We are drafting guidelines to curtail any kind of misinformation and rumours regarding the spread of the infection from the deceased body. As of now, the country has reported only two casualties due to the COVID19. There should be no panic and fear among people and proper respect should be given a while handling a deceased. Hence, there should be awareness that disease does not spread from a dead body."

Doctors have been advising various preventive measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, a communicable disease that can spread from an infected person to another.