Coronavirus: Body-bag stocks 'in danger of running out'
Mortuary suppliers have told BBC News they have no stocks of standard body bags left for sale, blaming stockpiling due to the coronavirus pandemic for the shortage.The NHS says it currently has adequate stocks but health workers report having to wrap bodies in sheets.And there was no specific need for body bags to be used to transport these corpses, although"there may be other practical reasons for their use".
The company has, however, increased the availability of polythene bags, known as body pouch bags, and urged any hospital or trust struggling with supplies to contact it. NHS trusts and funeral directors were desperate for the bags and"horrified" by the official advice it was safe not to use them, it said.The bags it sells are made in China but it said it took six weeks to ship them to the UK and air freighting them was prohibitively expensive.The supplier also said it was unable to keep up with the desperate demand form funeral directors for personal protective equipment and the whole industry was worried about how to cope with current death rates.
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