Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's elder brother and Minister Chamal Rajapaksa said to media that the cabinet had approved providing a suitable place to bury the dead bodies of Muslim persons who die with COVID-19. The Minister said that the decision had been taken at the last cabinet meeting held on Monday.
Meanwhile, Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that the cabinet had discussed the issue but not taken such a decision. He highlighted that no decision had been taken to change the present policy of cremating all COVID-19 dead bodies.
However, government MP Premnath C. Dolawatta said that he had complained to the acting Inspector General of Police against the letter by Ceylon Thawheed Jamath thanking the government for granting permission for the burial of the COVID-19 dead bodies of Muslims. He said that the letter was causing communal disharmony.
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