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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle To Keep Up As Covid Deaths Rise

Delhi Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle To Keep Up As Covid Deaths Rise

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published Published on Apr 14, 2021   modified Modified on Apr 15, 2021

-NDTV.com

At Delhi's biggest graveyard near ITO, a JCB excavator could be seen being used to constantly dig up more graves but it is also fast running out of space.

New Delhi: At Delhi's biggest crematorium, Nigambodh Ghat, the number of cremations have gone up from 15 per day to over 30 as COVID-19-related deaths in the national capital continue to rise.

Delhi recorded 104 deaths due to coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest since November 20. The same day, India recorded 1,027 deaths, the highest daily count since October 18 when 1,033 deaths were recorded.

Gautam, 27, who lost his grandfather to Covid on Tuesday night reached the Nigambodh Ghat on Wednesday at 8:30am but even after five hours, the funeral had not been performed due to lack of space at the cremation facility.

"We arrived here at 8:30 am. Our turn has not come yet. The situation is very bad. Two-three dead bodies are being brought in each ambulance," he said.

At Delhi's biggest graveyard near ITO, a JCB excavator could be seen being used to constantly dig up more graves but it is also fast running out of space.

Mohammad Shamim, the caretaker of the graveyard, said: "From one or two bodies a day, it is now 17 bodies daily. In the last five days, the condition has deteriorated. We only have space for 90 more. If situation continues like this, then in the next 10 days, we will run out of space."

Director of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute Dr Ritwick Raj Bhuyan said the death count is high because people are reporting to hospitals "at the very late stage."

"Mostly, people are dismissing their symptoms in the initial stage as cough or flu. It's only when their condition deteriorates badly that they turn up at hospitals," he claimed.

However, many people queuing up outside Delhi hospitals said that there is a delay in being admitted due to lack of hospital beds.

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NDTV.com, 14 April, 2021, https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhi-crematoriums-graveyards-struggle-to-keep-up-as-covid-19-deaths-rise-2413841


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