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

• Ishmael Festus Jaja,
• Madubuike Umunna Anyanwu,
• Chinwe-Juliana Iwu Jaja

Affiliations

Ishmael Festus Jaja

Department of Livestock and Pasture Science, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

Madubuike Umunna Anyanwu

Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Chinwe-Juliana Iwu Jaja

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa