Social distancing: how religion, culture and burial ceremony undermine the effort to curb COVID-19 in South Africa

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec;9(1):1077-1079. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1769501.
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Keywords: Africa; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; South Africa; burial ceremony; religion; tradition.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Burial / ethics
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / mortality
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pandemics*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
  • Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
  • Religion*
  • Restraint, Physical / psychology*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • South Africa / epidemiology
  • Survival Analysis