A massive surge of COVID-19 infections in India has so overwhelmed the country’s cremation facilities, last rites have to be performed en masse.
Multiple …
A massive surge of COVID-19 infections in India has so overwhelmed the country’s cremation facilities, last rites have to be performed en masse. Multiple fire pits burn at once in this facility outside of Mumbai, where relatives and workers in protective gear lay virus victims to rest. The number of cases across the country of around 1.3 billion rose overnight to 346,786 Saturday, the Health Ministry said, for a total of 16.6 million cases, including 189,544 deaths. COVID-19 deaths increased by 2,624 in 24 hours, marking the highest daily rate for the country so far. Crematoriums across Delhi said they were full and mass cremation ceremonies were reported at some. “Every hospital is running out (of oxygen). We are running out,” Dr. Sudhanshu Bankata, executive director of Batra Hospital, a leading hospital in the capital, told New Delhi Television channel. At least 20 COVID-19 patients in the critical care unit of a New Delhi hospital died overnight Friday as “oxygen pressure was low,” the Indian Express newspaper reported Saturday.
