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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Budaka District Covid-19 task force has been thrown into panic after reports emerged that some families have started exhuming the remains of their relatives who succumbed to Covid-19 so as to accord them befitting send-offs.Daily Monitor has learnt that the locals have on numerous occasions complained to their local leaders that the spirits of their deceased relatives harass them at night, demanding decent burial in accordance with their stipulated rituals.<\/p>\n

The Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr Tom Chesol, confirmed the reports saying the locals have been exhuming the bodies especially at night.Mr Chesol said the relatives claim the deceased are complaining of the heat from the polythene bags in which they are buried by the Covid-19 burial team.He, however, said the authorities will convene a meeting this week to find ways of dealing with the vice.\u201cWe condemn the act and call upon all local council chairpersons to warn the perpetrators that if caught, they will be severely punished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Budaka township LCI chairperson, Mr Abdul Rashid, said his step son mobilised other relatives to exhume the body of his brother, which was buried last Friday after the deceased reportedly appeared to him.\u201cThe deceased reportedly told him that he died of witchcraft and not Covid-19, so he needed a befitting burial,\u201d he said.CasesMs Jenifa Naloongo, the secretary of women\u2019s affairs in Budaka Town Council, said the acts by some locals are undermining the government effort to combat the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes at the time when the district is still struggling to contain the spread of the disease which has so far killed six people in the area,\u201d she said.Mr Nasur Masaba, the Budaka Covid-19 surveillance officer, said by June 29, the district had registered 168 cumulative cases with five people in intensive care unit, 56 recoveries and six deaths. \u201cThe district is overwhelmed by several Covid-19 deaths but the locals seem not bothered,\u201d he said.Mr Emmanuel Pajje, the district chairperson, urged the district health team to intensify sensitization in communities and also improve management of Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to increase sensitisation especially in the rural communities because people still believe Covid-19 is not real,\u201d he said.Ms Pauline Ahaisibwe, the acting District Police Commander, said they would deploy to arrest suspects behind the vice.\u201cWe have intelligence on the suspects and we are hunting them. I will not reveal the identities because this might jeopardise the investigation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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