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Crematorium in the Czech Republic attack bosses amid rising coronavirus mortality. The country is at the top the black statistics of the Old Continent, reports AFP.
The Czech Republic takes weeks the most severely affected country in Europe in the number of new deaths of coronavirus per 100,000 people, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
The Czech Republic has extended the state of emergency until 20 November
Andrei Babish’s government insisted that it be before December 3
At the end of October, there are 10.7 million people in the European country. about 200 died each day. To compare in the Czech Republic an average of 300 people die a day for all the reasons.
“We are overwhelmed, there are many more dead than usual”Complained Josef Melih, owner of a private crematorium in the central town of Tabor.
“The increase is 40%. We cover nursing homes where most people die from coronavirus. It’s difficult, ”he added to the news agency.
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The European Federation of Funeral Services reports that cremation is the most common a funeral ritual in a predominantly atheistic Czech Republic, where there are 27 crematoria.
In 2016, more than four out of five people who died in the Czech Republic were kdrawn: this percentage is higher only in the other five countries. The leader is Japan with 99.98%.
The coronavirus is a burden on all crematoria, said Ivo Furmanchik, director of a crematorium in the eastern city of Ostrava.
They are cremated in the crematorium. about 11,000 corpses a year. It is likely to rise to 12,500 this year due to the epidemic.
We are working constantly and the second wave of the virus coincides with autumn, when mortality tends to rise, we face capacity problems, he said.
Furmanchik noted that they have expanded capacity of the crematorium and hopefully that is sufficient.
The epidemic changed the way Czechs bury their relatives after the Ministry of Health published order at the beginning of the health crisis in March.
Now the dead not washed and dressed, and they are placed directly in sacks, which are disinfected and placed in coffins.
Coffin workers wear masks and glovesrevealed Furmanchik.
Melich commented on some your employees are at home with a coronavirus that killed nearly 6,000 in the Czech Republic.
We follow the instructions, but we simply cannot avoid infection. Our employees are in contact with the virus, even when wearing protective clothing, he added.
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