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India COVID: Delhi running out of space for cremations

India COVID: Delhi running out of space for cremations

By Naveel Krishant
01/05/2021
[Image: BBC]

Officials in Delhi have been urged to find more sites for cremations as the city's morgues and crematoriums are overwhelmed by masses of COVID deaths.

A second wave of the virus is ravaging parts of India, with 386,452 new cases reported on Friday - the biggest one-day increase on record for any country.

There were another 3,500 deaths nationwide and nearly 400 in Delhi - a record for the capital.

The total number of infections in the country has now passed 18 million.

151 million cases have been recorded worldwide with 3.17 million deaths.

[Source: BBC]

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