As death toll spirals, corpses wait in 20-hour queues for last rites at Delhi crematoriums SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 05:01 PM IST Share Synopsis By official count, 3,601 people have died this month, of them 2,267 in the last seven days alone in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic which is terrorising and tormenting the city. In all of February, the death toll was 57, and in March 117. PTI spirals, corpses wait in 20-hour queues for last rites at Delhi Under the high tin roof, 50 funeral pyres burned fiercely on Tuesday, the hot air filled with smoke, fine ash and muted sobs of shell-shocked famlies.