This footage was filmed and produced 25 April 2021.

India’s unfolding coronavirus crisis is at its most visceral in the overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums.
Outside crematoriums in cities like the capital New Delhi, which currently has the highest number of daily cases, ambulance after ambulance waits in line to cremate the dead. Delhi has been cremating so many bodies that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks for kindling as a record surge of COVID-19 collapses India’s tattered healthcare system.

The nation of nearly 1.4 billion people set a global record of new daily infections for a fifth straight day on Monday. The 352,991 new cases pushed India’s total past 17 million, behind only the United States.

The video shows a mass cremation of victims who died due to the coronavirus at a crematorium ground in New Delhi.