Counting the Covid dead in the capital: on paper, at the pyre, and in between

Thursday, 29 April 2021Newsdesk
Counting the Covid dead in the capital: on paper, at the pyre, and in between
The harrowing images playing out from cities and towns across the country show mourners lined up outside crematoriums, rows of funeral pyres burning with hardly a break, last-rites arrangements being hurriedly scrambled for the rising number of dead.

New Delhi, 29 April 2021                                                                         

In the capital, currently the Ground Zero of the fierce second wave, these images frame a growing gap between the number laid to rest and that put on paper as the official Covid death toll, records accessed by The Indian Express show.

Source -indianexpress.com

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