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A total of 4,473 bodies were cremated at Satya Nagar crematorium in 2020.
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Workers of the Satyanagar city cremation ground preparing to cremate the bodies of coronavirus victims in Bhubaneswar on May 13.
| Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT
A total of 4,473 bodies were cremated at Satya Nagar crematorium in 2020.
At a time when controversy continues to rage over under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths, one crematorium in Odisha was found to have recorded 3,978 bodies in the second half of 2020 — twice the State’s total COVID-19 toll during the corresponding period.
Information provided by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in response to an RTI application says a total of 4,473 bodies were cremated at Satya Nagar crematorium in 2020.