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Delhi crematoriums struggle to manage resources as Covid kills 409 in 13 days

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NEW DELHI : Mashqoor Rashid makes a grim projection as he oversees the burials of coronavirus victims' bodies one after another at the city's largest graveyard."At this rate, we will run short of land in a month," he tells PTI at the Qabristan Ahle Islam near ITO. "Since last week, on an average 10-15 bodies of COVID victims are being buried daily here.

Yesterday, 18 burials were performed."Suman Gupta, the general secretary of Badi Panchayat Vaishya Beese Agarwal organisation that manages the city's main crematorium at the Nigambodh Ghat, has an equally sobering number to share."Usually, around 50-60 cremations are performed here daily.

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