 My name is Oren Finnegan. I'm the head of our forensic unit here at the International Committee of the Red Cross. What we see is the unfortunate natural reaction of panic. I think people are obviously become very concerned when we see a large number of deaths in a short period of time. The key thing that we advocate for time and again is good clear communication from the responsible authorities. There is sometimes the reaction to say, let's not talk about the dead, that will scare people. In fact our experience is if we don't, if the authorities cannot be upfront and transparent with people as to what's evolving, it only instills greater fear and concern. And that's not just in disasters but in cases of people going unaccounted for conflict in general. It's the same case. People need information and providing that quickly through a coordinated and well-structured means addresses those concerns and elays unnecessary fears and myths that naturally occur at a time like this. It is unfortunately a common misperception. There is no scientific evidence. In fact in cases like this it is essentially important to not hastily dispose of the dead and this is a key message that we pass and other leading agencies pass in our guidance during disasters for example. We developed a manual in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the Federation of the Red Cross in this regard to remind people of the need to take the necessary steps to ensure that the dead are properly tracked and when being put in temporary or long-term disposition that those cases are properly documented to ensure that families do not end up having their loved ones unaccounted for and I think this is really, really important. Taking the time to ensure the proper documentation and tracking of the dead helps alleviate the fears and the concerns of families. There is no doubt that the major challenge or limitations that are being put in place in terms of funerary services for the dead are centered around the living. They're centered around social distancing and not about the dead themselves and I think that's a very important point to make as some people may think that the limitation of the number of people at funerary services is to do with the dead but no it's to do with the need for social distancing for the living. So yes there is no doubt that it has and will have an impact on families and we need to work with concerned authorities to understand how best we can mitigate this through a dialogue again with communities with concerned whether it be religious leaders to see how to best address the needs of families and concerned communities in this respect. So we must remember them and we must remember that and ensure that institutions and decision makers put in place the measures to ensure the proper identification of the dead and to ensure that the dead don't get lost or rapidly disposed of thus elevating the risk of them becoming unidentified and thus causing further trauma for communities and families concerned. For my own experience they I think we have to remember that working with the dead can have a significant impact on one's health and the need to not feel alone to be able to ensure and that's another thing we try to work with and is to ensure that institutions put in place measures so that staff can be properly briefed and debriefed on handling the dead. Staff that engage with these types of procedures must be trained they must be prepared for what they are going to deal with and that is a key point that we we make as as an institution is to ensure that people are not adversely affected. Personally yes there is no doubt that I have seen at first hand the impact that that can have and it only strengthens my message when I speak to other practitioners to reach out and for decision makers to ensure that the proper measures are in place. The most important advice that we can give today is to ask high-level decision-making authorities to convene those who need to be involved in a preparedness plan to be brought around the table and to begin working on those preparedness plans today because if we don't plan for today we will not be able to respond tomorrow. The reality is is that we've seen in countries around the world not just in this pandemic but in disasters when those efforts are not made in advance then the forelight is a lot more traumatic for all of those concerned and in particular the communities that are most affected and we work extensively globally to do exactly that to help bring people around the table to share experiences from other scenarios that have faced similar problems so that people can learn from the past and plan for the future.