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Bodies of Indian COVID-19 Victims Found on Banks of Ganges River

HeadlineMay 11, 2021

India reported another 330,000 coronavirus cases Tuesday and nearly 4,000 additional deaths, though the true tolls are likely to be far higher. In northern India, dozens of bodies of COVID-19 victims have washed up on the banks of the Ganges River in recent days. Residents said desperate relatives disposed of the bodies in the river after they couldn’t find a cremation site with open space or couldn’t afford to buy wood for a funeral pyre. On Monday, the World Health Organization declared that a new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus lineage circulating widely in India is a “variant of concern.”

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