Man carries COVID positive wife’s body on cycle after villagers refuse cremation
According to police, the hospital had sent her body back to the village in an ambulance, but the villagers did not allow her cremation in the local cremation ground as they said it would ensure the spread of infection in the village.
By Nikita Venkatesh| Updated: 29th April 2021 5:29 pm IST
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In a rather heartbreaking incident that sums up India’s current COVID-19 crisis, a man was seen carrying the body of his dead wife on his bicycle after being denied help in his village in Uttar Pradesh, as people felt cremating a COVID patient’s body would spread the virus in the village.