By Francis Mascarenhas MUMBAI (Reuters) - Two or three months into the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing pers.
Mumbai gravedigger works 24-hour shifts as India s COVID-19 death toll soars
FILE PHOTO: Gayesh Ansari, looks at the body of his 8 months pregnant wife, Gulshan Ansari as he lowers her body into a grave after she died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a graveyard in Mumbai, India April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas reuters tickers
This content was published on April 29, 2021 - 07:57
April 29, 2021 - 07:57
By Francis Mascarenhas
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Two or three months into the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves. I m not scared of COVID, I ve worked with courage. It s all about courage, not about fear, said the 52-year-old, who has been digging graves in the city for 25 years.
India infections top 18 million as gravediggers work round the clock
By Alasdair Pal and Francis Mascarenhas
Reuters
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) -India s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots.
India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry data showed, the highest number of fatalities in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
The world s second most populous nation is in deep crisis, with hospitals and morgues overwhelmed.
The Least the Centre Can Do for People Now Is Provide Free COVID Vaccines
It is impossible to understand why a public good has become a market commodity.
A woman with breathing problem waits inside an ambulance for her turn to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad, India, April 28, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave
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It is only because vaccination is a public good and the most cost effective way of reducing mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases, that all Western countries are vaccinating their populations free of cost. These countries are not socialists and are market driven, like the US. They are doing so even when a majority of their populations have enough per capita incomes to afford a $20 shot. If that is so, why does our leadership in India think otherwise?
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