Buxar (Bihar) [India], May 16 (ANI): After several bodies were found floating in Ganga in Buxar district, Bihar police have stepped up vigil along the banks of the river.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on CBS This Morning that people vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks outside.
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More scenes out of India horrified the world on Monday after it was reported that dozens of dead bodies had drifted onto the banks of the River Ganges in Chausa village in the Buxar district of the eastern state of Bihar.
Now, authorities have apparently placed a net in the river to catch the corpses of the suspected COVID victims.
On Wednesday, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Bihar state minister of Water Resources (WRD) and Information and Public Relations (IPRD) tweeted an update on the handling of the bodies by the state and introduced the plan to spread a net in order to handle the influx of remains.
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71 bodies retrieved from Ganga in Buxar, Bihar asks UP government to be vigilant ANI | Updated: May 12, 2021 00:59 IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 12 (ANI): Bihar Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha has said 71 bodies have been taken out from the Ganges in Buxar district and their last rites performed and a net has been placed in the Ganga in Ranighat, bordering UP and Bihar, to stop any similar incident from happening again. The bodies were found floating in the river and there are apprehensions that the corpses could of COVID-19 patients.
Jha, who is Miniter of Water Resources and Information and Public Relations, said in a series of tweets that Bihar Government has advised UP administration to be vigilant in the matter.