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The controversy over the Gazette notification issued in April 2020 under the hand of the Director-General of Health Services mandating the disposal of all Covid-19 affected dead bodies by cremation has escalated into an ethno-religious political fervour of unwanted, unintended and counter-productive proportions. What was essentially a directive predicated solely on protecting national health concerns during a raging pandemic whose contours were still to be determined within the scientific community (due to the newness of the phenomenon), the primary concern was to eliminate even the remotest possibility of transmission of the virus by destruction of it through subjecting the mortal remains to intense heat.

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