Funeral home staff have been prohibited from entering hospitals and long-term care homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that workers at those facilities are now responsible for bringing out the bodies of the dead themselves.
Whereas funeral home staff previously went into hospitals and long-term care homes themselves to retrieve and bag bodies, a new rule that went into effect earlier this week means that they are now required to stop outside the facilities and provide staff with a stretcher and body bag. The staff at those facilities will then be expected to bag the body and bring it out.
