Bodies of Indian COVID-19 victims found on banks of Ganges River
New Delhi, May 11 (RHC)-- India reported another 330,000 coronavirus cases Tuesday and nearly 4,000 additional deaths, though the true tolls are likely to be far higher.
In northern India, dozens of bodies of COVID-19 victims have washed up on the banks of the Ganges River in recent days. Residents said desperate relatives disposed of the bodies in the river after they couldn’t find a cremation site with open space or couldn’t afford to buy wood for a funeral pyre.
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization declared that a new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus lineage circulating widely in India is a “variant of concern.”
