LUCKNOW, May 11 — Scores of bodies are washing up on the banks of the Ganges as Indians fail to keep pace with the deaths and cremations of around 4,000 people a day from the novel coronavirus. India currently accounts for one in three of the reported deaths from coronavirus around the world,...
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 08:49 PM MYT
Rural parts of India not only have more rudimentary healthcare, but are now also running short of wood for traditional Hindu cremations. Akhand Pratap, a local resident, said that “people are immersing bodies in the holy Ganges river instead of cremation because of shortage of cremation wood”. Official Covid-19 deaths, which experts say are almost certainly under-reported, stand at just under a quarter of a million.
“There were issues with oxygen pressure due to low availability. It all happened within a span of five minutes,” said M Harinarayan, the district’s senior civil servant.
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