100 cremated in Bharuch’s Covid crematorium in 2 days

Bharuch/Surat: The Covid-19 situation in the industrial district of Bharuch continues to be grim with infections on the rise in rural areas.
As on May 8, there were on 1,644 active cases in the district, taking the total numbers since the outbreak of pandemic to 7,979.
On Sunday, Bharuch district clocked the highest number of single-day cases with 248 testing positive.
While official records still maintain 77 deaths, Covid-designated crematoriums, graveyards and burial places continue to be overwhelmed with dead bodies.
At the Covid crematorium on the banks of Narmada River near Golden Bridge, nearly 900 bodies have been cremated. On Saturday and Sunday alone, final rites of at least 100 bodies were done here, according to the records of the crematorium.
The rural areas of the districts are worst-affected with total cases registered going to up to 5,258 while there are 2,721 cases in urban areas of Ankleshwar and Bharuch towns.
There are several industrial estates having hundreds of units in Ankleshwar, Dahej, Vilayat, Panoli, and Jhagadia where lakhs of migrant people are employed as labourers.
Dr. Ketan Doshi, a physician at Ankleshwar-based Jivan Jyot Hospital said, “The situation in rural areas is worsening and we are seeing patients approaching hospital too late.”
Meanwhile, long queues were seen at the vaccination centres in both and rural areas. However, due to the limited supply, many centres ran out of vaccines.
Dr. Nilesh Patel, district epidemic health officer told TOI: "Around 92 vaccination camps were organized at various industrial units and we got a good response. At present, the drive has been halted due to shortage of vaccines but it will resume in few days.”