Due to the second wave of Corona virus, we can conclude increase in the deathrate of individuals. It can also be observed that the bodies of COVID-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government said in a letter seen by Reuters, the first official acknowledgement of an alarming practice it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in villages due to the water pollution that can be observed. Images of corpses drifting down the Ganges river, which Hindus consider holy, have shocked a nation reeling under the world's worst surge in infections and causing more trouble.
Although media have linked the recent increase in the numbers of such bodies to the pandemic, the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 240 million people, has until now not publicly revealed the cause of the deaths.
In the memo, Singh said a lack of funds for materials such as firewood for cremation, religious beliefs in some communities, and families abandoning victims for fear of the disease were among the likely reasons for the surge in dumping.He also added that the virus mostly spreads through aerosols and its depends on airflow. It dilutes in the water to an extent that there is little danger of transmission.
Earlier this month, more than a dozen of dead bodies were found to be floating on the banks of Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar district. The bodies are allegedly of dead Covid infected patients who are being dumped in the river either due to the taboo around the virus in rural India or lack of money to cremate them.