Fear of Covid-19 no excuse for delaying post-mortem, says group

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CORONAVIRUS | Concerns over Covid-19 should not be an excuse for delaying the post-mortem of a death-in-custody victim in Bentong, said the group Eliminating Death and Abuse in Custody Together (Edict). In a statement today, Edict said the remains of a Covid-19 patient should be treated as just another person who had died of infectious disease, and no infection should be an excuse for not performing a post-mortem. “All pathologists performing post-mortems begin with the assumption that a corpse is infected. “Post-mortems have been performed on Covid-19 infected bodies around the world. “There is no reason why Malaysia should choose not to do a post-mortem on a body known to be infected, especially in a custodial death case,” the group said. Earlier today, Malaysiakini reported that G Jestus Kevin, 30, had supposedly died of shortness of breath while detained at the Bentong police s…