Africa-Press – Mozambique. The cemetery reserved for Covid-19 victims from Maputo city and province, in the outlying neighbourhood of Michafutene, is rapidly filling up.
According to a report carried by the independent television station STV, an average of 20 bodies a day are being buried at Michafutene.
On Thursday, the cemetery administrator, Alfredo Faife, told STV “This morning alone ten bodies were buried. The way things are going, by the end of the day 20 funerals could be held here”.
The Michafutene cemetery was opened fairly recently, and still has plenty of space for new graves, but Faife is worried that, given the current pace of Covid-19 deaths in the capital, space will eventually run out.
“We are under increasing pressure”, he said, “but we are still able to control the situation. Indeed we recently received additional staff and equipment”.
