Bodies wash up from the Ganges as Covid-19 marches through India

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Deaths increased by a record 4,205 in the 24 hours to Wednesday, carrying the tally of infections past 23-million

India is experiencing a huge surge in Covid-19, one its health system cannot cope with. Picture: BLOOMBERG/REBECCA CONWAYIndia’s coronavirus death toll crossed a quarter of a million on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, overloading a fragile rural healthcare system.

Funeral pyres have blazed in city parking lots, and scores of bodies have washed up on the banks of the holy river Ganges, having been immersed by relatives whose villages were stripped bare of the wood needed for cremations. Though the infection curve may be showing early signs of flattening, new cases are likely to fall off slowly, according to virologist Shahid Jameel.

The full impact of the B.1.617 variant found in India, which the WHO has designated as being of global concern, is not yet clear, it said. More than half the cases this week in the western state of Maharashtra were in rural areas, up from a third a month ago. That share is nearly two-thirds in the most populous, and mainly rural, state of Uttar Pradesh, government data showed.

 

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