‘Mumbai Has No River To Dump Covid Bodies’: Mayor’s Jibe At UP, Bihar

Mumbai:

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar retaliated right this moment over opposition BJP’s allegations of under-reporting in Covid deaths, remarking that there are not any rivers within the metropolis the place our bodies will be dumped. Underneath-reporting of circumstances have been an enormous challenge in among the states, particularly in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Bihar — the place our bodies buried within the sandbanks of Ganga and floating down the river prompted large shock and outrage final month.

“Knowledge of Covid deaths are usually not being hidden,” Ms Pednekar was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

“No information is being hidden in Mumbai. There isn’t any river in Mumbai the place our bodies of individuals succumbing to Corona are being dumped. All Covid deaths in Mumbai are recorded at three locations, so the info cannot be hidden,” she added.

Maharashtra was criticised repeatedly by the BJP over its big Covid numbers in each the primary and second waves of the illness, until Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked {that a} excessive variety of assessments can reveal excessive Covid figures and that was the necessity of the hour to rein within the pandemic.

With 15,947 energetic circumstances, Mumbai’s administration of Covid within the second wave has been seen as exemplary and the town has recovered quick from the ravages of the virus. It was even praised by the Supreme Courtroom, which throughout a listening to on the oxygen scarcity final month, stated, “The Municipal Company of Larger Mumbai has performed a exceptional job”.

The nation’s official information for the second wave of Covid-19 has been questioned by many since pictures from crematoriums and graveyards had been carried by publications the world over.

The hundreds of nameless graves on the sandbanks of river Ganga and the our bodies floating down the river made it a matter of certainty that the precise numbers of people that died as a consequence of Covid might by no means be identified.