Floating corpses of new crown patients are frequently found in the Ganges. Indian media: some people dare not eat fish because of panic...
[Global.net report, trainee reporter Yan Yue] According to the "Times of India", since the bodies of patients with new crown floating in the rivers of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, India, fish dealers and customers have become wary of fish from the rivers of these two states.
According to the report, scientists also believe that this caution is justified due to the danger, but they said that immediate measures are needed to ensure that such (floating corpse) incidents do not occur again.
According to the report, one of the affected people said that he likes fish very much. “We can’t even imagine a daily diet without fish”, but “after seeing the scene of corpses floating in the river on TV, we are now deciding to return to normalcy. I no longer eat fish before."
The report believes that the severity of the panic mentioned above can be seen from the decline in fish market sales in the affected West Bengal state of Kolkata.
The report quoted Kolkata’s fish merchant Ramesh Das as saying, “Now, many customers simply don’t eat fish.”
Ranjan Kumar Manna, chief scientist of India’s Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, believes that some fish-buying customers’ panic cannot be easily eliminated, because after watching the news of floating bodies in the river, such The panic has penetrated into their minds.
Manner said, “Some species of fish will eat animal carcasses thrown into the river, but they do not distinguish between animal carcasses and human carcasses. This is where the danger lies." He also expressed the hope that the Uttar Pradesh government can help the fish. And take action for the safety of other aquatic animals.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the number of deaths in India has increased sharply, and there have even been multiple floating bodies in the Ganges.
According to previous reports by Indian media, on May 11 local time, there were more and more floating bodies in the Ganges river section of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The bodies were found under a bridge at the junction of the two states.
Officials in Bihar state that in the section of the Ganges River that passes through the city of Bambergsal, 71 bodies were washed up on the banks of the river on the 10th, and they blamed Uttar Pradesh.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of India on May 15th, in the past 24 hours, there were 326,098 new confirmed cases of new crown in India, and a total of 24,372,907 confirmed cases; 3,890 new deaths and a total of 266,207 deaths.