Openly flouting the norms to be observed while collecting the body of a patient who died of COVID-19, a family opened the body bag in Maharashtra's Ulhasnagar and now as many as 18 members of the family have tested positive for coronavirus.
The woman died this week and after her relatives opened the body bag, clearly violating the guidelines, they tested positive for the infection.
Just three weeks ago, relatives? of another coronavirus victim flouted cremation guidelines and they too, opened the bag.
Twenty family members and funeral attendees tested positive.
The mortal remains of a woman who died on May 25 were wrapped in a body bag and handed to her relatives. They were stictly asked to not open the bag and take it directly for cremation.
However, they took it to a monastery opened it and touched the body while performing rituals before the funeral, said a report by India Today.
Close to a hundred people were at the funeral. Soon after the authorities found it, 50 people were quarantined, out of 18 tested positive on Friday.
The authorities are now trying to track down the others who were at the funeral.
On Friday, 32 new coronavirus cases brought Ulhasnagar's total to 305.