China News Service, May 17 reported that the new crown epidemic in India has not yet cooled down. More than 310,000 confirmed cases were added on the 16th, and more than 300,000 new cases have been added for 24 consecutive days.
In addition, according to Reuters, Indian officials confirmed for the first time in a letter on the 14th that the bodies of the deceased with the new crown were thrown into the Ganges.
According to Reuters, the letter was sent to local officials by Manoj Kumar Singh, a senior official in Uttar Pradesh. The letter stated that the authorities were informed of people who had died of the new crown or other diseases and their bodies were abandoned in the river instead of being properly handled. deal with.
Singh confirmed that he had written to local officials, but emphasized that the authorities conducted post-mortems on 4 to 5 salvaged bodies and found no virus infection.
However, since the corpse has decomposed, it is difficult to confirm whether information about the infection can be found.
Singh asked local officials to ensure that no bodies were thrown into the river. The state government will pay 5,000 rupees to each poor family as a funeral and will send police officers to patrol the river to prevent residents from abandoning their bodies.
The members of the Indian charity organization said that the death toll in rural areas is very high, but due to the high cost of funeral ceremonies and the lack of cremated wood, the poor people chose to throw their bodies directly into the river.
Other officials said that according to Hindu traditions, some villagers would not cremate their bodies during religious holidays, so they would dig graves on the banks of the river for burial or throw their bodies into the river.