-TheWire.in Interviews with officials and workers at cremation grounds across the state provide a glimpse into the massive official undercounting underway. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government’s COVID-19 bulletin on Friday reported zero deaths from Agra, Ghaziabad and Jhansi districts in the preceding 24 hours, and just one death from Bareilly. In total, the UP government bulletin of April 16 said that 46 out of the state’s 75 districts did not have...
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‘Dead bodies all over’: Lucknow funerals tell a story starkly different from UP govt’s claims -Jyoti Yadav
-ThePrint.in On 15 April, Yogi govt's health bulletin said UP recorded 104 Covid deaths in 24 hrs. But Lucknow alone saw 108 funerals that day, and this is just at crematoriums & not cemeteries. Lucknow: “Humne (kabhie) itni dead bodies to dekhi hi nahin hai… wo ghat par platform bane hain, woh khali pade rahte the, (par) aaj pair rakhne ki jagah nahin hai, charon aur lashein hi lashein.” Amar Singh, 29, who...
More »Bhopal crematoriums flooded with bodies: 187 cremated following Covid norms while records show only 5 deaths -Ravish Pal Singh
-IndiaToday.in At the two crematoriums in Bhopal, 187 bodies were cremated following Covid protocols in four days while the official death toll remained at five. Bhopal: The number of deceased Covid-19 patients who are being cremated or buried in Bhopal city is far higher than what the official records have been stating over the past days. The cremation grounds in Bhopal that would see about 5-10 bodies being brought earlier are now seeing...
More »Delhi crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle To Keep Up As Covid Deaths Rise
-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...
More »Wait for final rites get longer as crematoriums across Gujarat overburdened - Aditi Raja, Kamal Saiyed, Gopal B Kateshiya and Ritu Sharma
-The Indian Express For the relatives of deceased patients, queues begin from the wait at hospitals for their dear one's body, for hearse vans to take them to the resting place, to finding a furnace free at a crematorium -- the time for each disposal/cremation has increased because of the Covid-19 protocol. Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara: Donning a PPE suit Chirag Patel waited at the Vadaj crematorium in Ahmedabad for his turn...
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