As Covid Ravages Delhi, 2 Men Arrange Funerals For Those Who Have None

In the past 96 hours alone, more than 11,000 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 across the country; in Delhi, the national capital, nearly 1,500 people died in that time

On Wednesday morning the centre said 3,293 people died in the past 24 hours after being infected by the COVID-19 virus. In Delhi, the national capital, 381 people died in that time. AN Yadav, 70, was one of those people. A Covid-positive patient who died at his home in the city's Ranibagh area, his family consisted of a wife, whom the virus has already claimed, and a young daughter, who told NDTV she'd tried desperately, and failed, to have her father admitted to a hospital for treatment. For people like Neelam - who are unable to arrange a funeral either because they are scared, exhausted or cannot leave home because they too are Covid-positive - help arrives in the form of two young men, young Sikhs, who collect the bodies and make all the arrangements.