COVID-19: IIT-Kanpur to study impact of immersion of bodies in water, soil
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Kanpur (IIT-Ok) will now study the impact of the immersion/burial of bodies in water and soil. According to Prof Vinod Tare, advisor to the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), the event comes in the backdrop of mass graves being found on the banks of the Ganga in Rae Bareli, Unnao, Kanpur, Fatehpur and Kannauj, and fears about potential contamination of water and soil if the bodies had been of Covid-19 sufferers.
“We are going to study the impact of immersion of bodies and their burial on water and soil,” stated Prof Tare, including that the difficulty had been mentioned on the NMCG stage.
“Immersing a Covid body in Ganga would wash the virus, but it won’t be destroyed. You need different agents such as heat and others to destroy the virus,” he stated.
Prof Tare, who’s with the institute’s environmental science division, has been half of all high panels shaped to rejuvenate the Ganga.
The professor sought a whole ban on immersion and burial on the riverbed and stated the federal government ought to make preparations in order to forestall the apply.
Prof Tare has issued an attraction to the folks not to dump the bodies in the river or bury them shut to it.
The graves discovered in Unnao, Kanpur and Kannauj in the previous couple of days had been shallow as bodies have been buried at lower than two-to-three-feet. This has elevated the worry that these corpses could be washed away as soon as the river rises throughout monsoon.
Kanpur police commissioner Aseem Arun has stated that preparations could be made for correct cremation if the involved households couldn’t afford the associated fee.
The state authorities has additionally arrange a unit of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), one platoon of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and jawans from river police to patrol the river on boats and forestall immersion of bodies in the Ganga.
