India reports record rise in COVID-19 deaths as total toll crosses the quarter million mark

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India said on Wednesday a record number of people were killed by the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, pushing its overall death toll over a quarter million.

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The brutal second wave of COVID-19 infections has spread from the cities to small towns and the countryside, ripping through a fragile health system ill-equipped for a crisis of this scale.are also running short of wood for traditional Hindu cremations and scores of bodies are washing up on the banks of the Ganges river which flows through the most populous areas of the northern plains.

Even in the capital, New Delhi, many COVID victims are abandoned by their relatives after cremation, leaving volunteers to wash the ashes, pray over them, and then take them to scatter into the river, rituals usually conducted by the family.AFP via Getty Images

 

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Disaster! Lucky our borders are closed.

Vaccine roll out started in India mid January. So the vaccine isn’t working? Or the vaccine causing more Covid? Wth?

Any nation that lets its population to grow to over 1b, with most living in poverty, no health system, no care, needs to be held accountable for every death, India is just unsustainable.

This is so, so sad 😭

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