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So far, the nation has recorded 1,550 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 11 deaths and 155 recoveries.
Municipal Assembly workers and health officials were seen wearing protective gear while they buried unidentified bodies in a mass grave in the Sunyani Public Cemetery.
Investigations by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) showed that the bodies, including three children, had been kept in the hospital morgue for long periods, some as long as five years.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Ms. Justina Owusu-Banahene, the municipal executive director of Sunyani East said that the Assembly in collaboration with the authorities of the Regional Hospital and the Sunyani Municipal Security Council organized the mass burial.
Spectators could not hide their tears, as the solemn ceremony observed Christian, Muslim and traditional prayers for the dead.
Ghanaian culture revered funeral and burial rites when families, relatives and friends used the occasion to pay their respects to deceased souls.
Most often, the bodies of the deceased are dressed and placed in a state for public view, while mourners from walks of life sympathize with relationships.
But, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo directed the suspension of large meetings, as the nation’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased.
According to the president’s directive, no funeral ceremony should exceed more than 25 people, a situation that had discouraged many families from burying their dead relatives.
Angry. Owusu-Banahene indicated that the Regional Hospital morgue was drowned because families had been unable to collect and bury their deceased relatives due to government restrictions, hence the need for mass burial.
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