Volunteers lay to rest unclaimed bodies of COVID-19 victims

Another 4,500 people have perished in the past day with the number of deaths during the pandemic now exceeding 283,000.

An Indian volunteer is seen near burning pyre during a mass funeral of COVID-19 victims in New Delhi Source: AAP

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