With a sharp rise in Covid-19 deaths, cremation grounds have been running non-stop on Bengaluru’s outskirts. <br /> <br />At a long-unused cremation ground in Tavarekere, one can only see pyres burning. People working here have no time to waste since ambulances keep coming one after the other. <br /> <br />Meanwhile, inside Bengaluru, seven Covid crematoriums have been running almost round the clock for the past three weeks. One of them was shut down for maintenance on Saturday. <br /> <br />At the Tavarekere cremation ground, there are 41 iron platforms on which pyres can be lit in two shifts -- morning and evening. Each pyre takes around five hours to burn the body completely. So, close to 85 bodies are cremated in a day. <br /> <br />In the last 15 days, more than 800 bodies have been cremated here and the numbers are only increasing.
