In India, the stoves melt, without withstanding the number of corpses of those who died from coronavirus

In India, local crematoriums began to melt, without withstanding the number of corpses of those killed as a result of the coronavirus, the Al Jazeera channel reports, noting that the government underestimates the statistics of fatal outcomes from Covid-19.

Gas and wood furnaces of the crematorium in the Western Indian state of Gujarat during the pandemic worked without breaks for so long that the metal units began to melt. “We work around the clock by 100%to cremate the bodies on time,” said Surat Kramlesh Seilor, head of the crematorium management fund in the city.

At the same time, several large cities have reported a much larger amount of cremation and burial per day than follows from the official lists of the dead. This happens against the backdrop of a lack of medicines and hospitals of India, RTVI clarifies.

For example, in Surat, the second largest city of the state of Gudzharat, two crematoriums cremate per day of the Covid-19 infection per day, and only about 25 people per day die in official statistics in the city from coronavirus.

The crematorium Ashvikumar in Surat reported that the number of cremated bodies there tripled over the last weeks. And such a number of corpses was not even during the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1994 and after a flood in 2006.

In the Rannath Gela in the Surat cremarine, 20 bodies per day were previously cremated, and now more than 80 bodies per day.

Last week, the Sandesh newspaper, leaving the state of Gujarat, estimated that 63 bodies of the dead from coronavirus were taken out of the local hospital during the day, and only 20 died in its official documents.

According to Al Jazeera, Covid-19 daily cases in India have slightly decreased on April 20, but, as before, the sixth day of a row remains higher than 200,000. Over the past day, the number of infected ones increased to 259,170. According to the country's Ministry of Health, the number of deaths increased to the record 1761.

India is in second place among the countries of the most susceptible coronavirus infections (more than 15 million 320 thousand infected).

Officially, a little more than 180,000 people died from coronavirus in India, 15,000 of them in April, although some believe that the real number can be much higher.

Currently in India, a new strain of coronavirus is circulating - B1617. So far, experts only establish whether the new strain is more contagious or deadly compared to the original genetic version of the new coronavirus, as well as how well the vaccines protect from it.

On April 19, in India, the anti -record for the number of infection with coronavirus per day - almost 274 thousand. The Ministry of Health and Welfare of the India family emphasized that the sixth day in a row, anti -records are recorded for the number of cases of infection. The number of deaths associated with infection over the past 24 hours has increased by 1,619 and amounted to 178,769.

All this happens despite the current restrictions: the work of restaurants, shopping centers and gyms has been suspended in India, and the maximum number of people at weddings and funerals have been introduced.