Port Moresby: Papua New Guinea did the first in a series of Mass Covid-19 funerals Wednesday, Interring 54 people who still had not been claimed for months when the pandemics damaged Melanesian countries who lacked resources.
Hospital and government officials ordered a crisis ceremony after 300 bodies piled up in Port Moresby General Hospital Morgue, overgraded facilities designed to hold only 60.
Some leftovers had been stored there since March, when authorities try to find loved ones and secure funds which is rare to carry out the last rite.
The ceremony took place in the nine mile of funerals on the edge of the Port of the capital Moresby.
Masked-up officials carefully remove each fixed sheet of shipping containers and put each in a rough wooden box made by local villagers, AFP correspondents at the scene reported.
From there, some emergency caskets with names that are stacked are stacked like a Jenga block in a trench in four meters (13 feet).
About 40 people looked, including several city hall staff, as well as hospital servants and Morgue and several journalists.
No family is present.
Funeral is usually a vital cultural retention in Papua New Guinea, where the ceremony is known as “Haus Krais” can reach the day.
Even in remote areas, hundreds if not thousands of mourners are present.
Families, the clans are expanded and often people from neighboring villages gather to cry, Howl and Hours’ singing at the collective end of sadness.
Of the 300 died at Port Moresby General Hospital Morgue, about 122 positively confirmed for the Coronavirus.
However, the testing of patchwork, and the scale of the Papua New Guinea Pandemic crisis was not reflected in official figures.
Officially, it has detected around 35,000 cases in a population of almost nine million.
But data from 700 clinics throughout the country showed that 2.6 million people were more than a quarter of the population presented with flu symptoms or pneumonia between March 2020 and September 2021.