As of Monday (April 26), India's hospitals are stretched to a breaking point by the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, with people dying outside their doors or at home due to a lack of beds, drugs, and oxygen in Delhi.

Crematoriums are working overtime: their chimneys cracking and iron frames melting from constant use. Wood is reportedly in short supply, and some families are told to bring their own.

The substantial rise in the fatality rate has led to receding spaces in the crematoriums.

Delhi’s largest crematoriums for Covid related funerals, Nigambodh Ghat, is handling the cremation of dead bodies from six hospitals.

India's hospitals are being stretched to breaking point by an explosion in coronavirus cases with people dying outside their doors or at home due to a lack of beds, drugs, and oxygen. Crematoriums are working overtime, their chimneys cracking and iron frames melting from constant use. Wood is reportedly in short supply in places and some families are told to bring their own to burn.

As the daily caseload of coronavirus surges again, spaces in crematoriums and funeral homes are filling up. The substantial rise in the fatality rate has led to receding spaces in the crematoriums. Limited staff and resources have slowed down the cremation process of Covid infected bodies. Delhi’s largest crematoriums for Covid related funeral, Nigambodh Ghat, is handling the cremation of dead bodies from six hospitals. As per civic officials, as Nigambodh Ghat shares the maximum load of dead bodies in the city, the number of platforms for cremation through wooden pyre from 104 to 120 has been increased.