Updated: May 12, 2021 12:41 IST The number of cremations a day has increased to seven or eight during the past month Share Article AAA An ambulance waiting outside the electric crematorium at Athupalam in Coimbatore on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M The number of cremations a day has increased to seven or eight during the past month With Coimbatore reporting more COVID-19 deaths, electric crematoria are working extra time and those that have two furnaces dedicate one of these completely to cremating the bodies of people who died of the infection. Some of the crematoria have been operating to full capacity in Coimbatore in the recent days.