How would one feel when he/she has to wait for 12 hours to cremate his/her elder brother, who died probably due to Covid19, the test result for which is yet to arrive?
The state of Gujarat reported the highest spike of 7410 fresh cases of Covid19 as stated by the health department of the state on Wednesday. The number of patients who died due to coronavirus disease was at a record 73. In Gujarat, the cumulative count of the infection has touched 3,76,616 while the death toll has climbed to 4995, as stated by the health department in a release.
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Out of the 73 cases of fatalities, 25 deaths have occurred each in Ahmedabad, & Surat, while in Rajkot, & Vadodara 9 & 7 patients died respectively, and parallelly, 2 patients each in Sabarkantha & Junagadh, and one each in Amreli, Dang and Gandhinagar have succumbed to the disease.
In the same period, the city of Ahmedabad, recorded 2491, the highest number of new cases, followed by Surat at 1424 cases, 551 in Rajkot, 317 in Vadodara, 191 in Mehsana, 189 in Jamnagar & 124 in Bharuch.
The last-mentioned city of Bharuch has another grim story to tell like many cities in Gujarat. It is regarding the disposal of the dead bodies who succumbed to Covid19. A special crematorium has been brought up at the banks of Narmada. While the head of the crematorium claims that around 25-26 bodies are being cremated every day at this crematorium, the state government declared the death toll for Bharuch at 5(in the last month).
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As many crematoriums in Gujarat are witnessing a huge rush since the last one week, the relatives of the victims of COVID-19 as well as those who died of other ailments are forced to wait for hours for performing the last rites. A similar situation is present in the cities of UP, Maharashtra, and Chattisgarh, where videos have shown long lines of dead bodies waiting for last rites at an electric crematorium. At many places, it has also been reported that the dead are being disposed away without any last rite. Dead-bodies are piling up in heaps at many places. In Rajnandgaon town of Chattisgarh, (recording over 10000 new cases each day over past few days) a garbage van was found to be ferrying the dead-bodies of people who died due to Covid19. In Gujarat, the home state of Modi, at Chandrakheda crematorium, there are cases where people had to wait for 12 hours to cremate their near and dear ones who succumbed to Covid19. Some had not even received the Covid positive report by the time the victim was dead.
Modi-Shah are busy in rancorous election rallies in West Bengal which visibly defies every norm of social distancing and increases the risk of spread of Covid19 in the poll-bound state. Students are left in trepid waters about exams. All hell is breaking out loose across the country in terms of a decimated economy, the second wave of Covid19, demolished schedules, and continuity of the schooling & exam system infused now with an insidious confusion. Meanwhile, in the home-state of the duo, the skeletons about the truth of the Gujarat model are falling out of the closets. Gradually, a time will surely arrive when the charade of their gasbag speeches would not be able to hide the numbers, which are horrifying to be modest.
