Ambulance drivers were allegedly seen dumping the corpses of Covid victims from a bridge as India’s desperate coronavirus crisis continues.
Reports claimed dozens of bodies of coronavirus victims also washed up on the banks of the Ganges, along Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, on Tuesday.
Officials claimed they had counted 71 bodies wash up on the shore.
Janardhan Singh Sigriwal, a Bihar Member of Parliament for the country’s ruling BJP party, claimed coronavirus victims were being dumped by ambulance drivers from a bridge, the Daily Mail reports.
A video said to show the bodies being thrown in the water was allegedly shared on social media.
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Authorities in the Katihar district are investigating the claims.
Reports alleged staff were attempting to get rid of the bodies as they were unclaimed.
Bodies were also said to be being immersed because grieving families could not afford wood for funeral pyres and crematoriums are overwhelmed.
India is coming under pressure to go into a complete lockdown as the Covid variant wreaks havoc.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing calls for draconian restrictions as India continues to suffer 300-400,000 cases each day as well as 3,000-4,000 deaths.
Hospitals are running out of oxygen and beds while morgues and crematoriums are full.
The coronavirus variant that is sweeping India and now surging in the UK could spread up to 60% quicker than the Kent strain, a leading scientists has claimed.
Professor Tom Wenseleer claims to have analysed the two strains and noticed that it could soon become the dominant strain in the UK.
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The biologist and biostatistician at the KU Leuven university in Belgium, said on Twitter : “The Indian data estimates that B.1.617.2 has a 10% per day growth [advantage] over B.1.1.7 (translates to a ~60% transmission advantage).”
On Monday, the Mirror reported that cases of the Indian variant in the UK have grown from 202 to 502 in a week, mostly in Bolton and London and almost half were related to travel from abroad.
The Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) said there is a “possibility” it could take over in Britain but that vaccines would drastically reduce severe cases and deaths.