Small town reporters reveal Coronavirus carnage in India
Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi newspaper, fanned 30 of its reporters along the banks of the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. They found more than 2,000 corpses across some 1,140 kilometers (708 miles)
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Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi newspaper, fanned 30 of its reporters along the banks of the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. They found more than 2,000 corpses across some 1,140 kilometers (708 miles)
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) - Across India's small towns and villages, local language newspapers are revealing that thousands more are probably dying of the coronavirus each day than the government's data show. The Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi newspaper popular across India's crowded heartland, fanned 30 of its reporters along the banks of the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh state. They found - and photographed - more than 2,000 corpses across some 1,140km. That's when the state government claims only about 300 are dying daily. Their findings make grim reading: The authorities are piling silt over more tha...