9 December 2020 03:35 pm
Attorney General Dappula de Livera informed Director General of Health Services that bodies of COVID-19 victims, which are not claimed by families, can be cremated in terms of the Quarantine Regulations, AGs Coordinating Officer said.
The Government Information Department earlier said the cremation of the bodies of those who succumbed to COVID-19 infection without relatives and guardians would be done on the expense of the Government.