Gujarat: Obituaries flood newspapers belying official death count
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Last Updated: May 06, 2021, 03:51 PM IST
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The burgeoning death notices come amid apprehensions that the number of cases and casualties are being underreported for a variety of reasons.
With the addition of the new cases and the fatalities, the overall COVID-19 tally in Gujarat rose to 6,33,427 and the toll to 7,912, the health department said.
If any benchmark was needed for the growing menace of COVID-19 in Gujarat, one only has to open the obituary page of local newspapers. With each passing day, the obituary columns are becoming longer and longer to the point that the daily Saurashtra Bhaskar's Bhavnagar edition on Thursday set aside eight of its 16 pages for obituary notices.