{"id":17096,"date":"2020-12-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/12\/30\/durban-hindu-crematorium-extends-hours-amid-body-pile-up-largely-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:00:00","slug":"durban-hindu-crematorium-extends-hours-amid-body-pile-up-largely-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/12\/30\/durban-hindu-crematorium-extends-hours-amid-body-pile-up-largely-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban Hindu Crematorium Extends Hours Amid Body Pile-Up Largely Due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/news\/durban-hindu-crematorium-extends-hours-amid-body-pile-up-largely-due-to-covid-19\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gcs.thesouthafrican.com\/2020\/12\/9649cf47-euhmhjcxkaefu-t.jpeg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 28, 2020 (The South African): A Durban crematorium has been forced to extend their business hours because of an unprecedented increase in cremations resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. The Clare Estate Umgeni Hindu Crematorium usually conducted an average of eight cremations a day pre-Covid-19, but that number has rocketed to 27 cremations per day &#8211; over half of which are Covid-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Crematorium secretary Thegraj Kassie told IOL the crematorium was forced into changes to cope with the high volume of bodies coming in. The situation is quite bad. We have seen a big increase in cremations, particularly Covid-19 related deaths. As a result, we have had to extend our operating hours to 10 pm at night to cope with the demand.&#8221; Kassie added that they have designated two halls on the property that solely deal with Covid-19 related deaths and have instituted time limits on funerals. &#8220;We allocate 40 minutes for a normal funeral and 30 minutes for a Covid-19 related funeral.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 28, 2020 (The South African): A Durban crematorium has been forced to extend their business,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}