Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said family members of coronavirus victims will not have the privilege to claim their corpses for burial.
The minister spoke at a forum on Thursday in Abuja, declaring that such corpses as belonging to the Federal Government.
Mohammed said, “Coronavirus is very dangerous and contagious; there is no medicine for it yet and it is not just capable of killing, overwhelming health care system but it will destroy the economy.
“In some countries, they are putting dead bodies in big refrigerators because the morgues have filled up.
“Nigerians should not forget that this is not the type of corpses that can be claimed for burial because it must be handled by the Ministry of Health.
“It is not a joke; stay at home and stay safe, obey simple instructions of basic hygiene and social distancing, in few weeks, we will resume our normal life.”