I thought they threw the bodies in the river ?
The real problem is proving that horse drugs such as Ivermectin, and those crazy metal Zinc pills are ineffective.
If we can pay money to people to prove that the death count numbers are what we want, That is deductible business cost
India death undercounts have been questioned since their first wave back in Mar 2021 - when we did see bodies in the Ganges.
What makes the story new is, now we have families saying they had a death, but they don’t have a death certificate that would allow them to collect the compensation the govt is offering. (And for the 24% illiterate in the country, no clue where to start since they don’t read or write and may not even have had a village doctor)
They're supposed to throw the ashes in the river but wood to burn is a premium in India so the end result is that often only partially burned corpses get tossed.