The family stopped eating together since he started handling COVID-19 dead bodies as an undertaker. Peter Pariki-Kwashie, an Environmental Health Officer in charge of the burial teams in the Volta Region, says undertakers face a lot of risks because they are not protected. Experts say dead bodies spread diseases as they decompose so undertakers disinfect and prepare them to last longer. At one mortuary, Aziz is observed bathing a dead body with the wastewater splashing on him every now and then. The situation is even dire in areas where the cause of deaths is not investigated, leading to the possibility of many COVID-19 dead bodies being buried unreported.
