“India’s super-rich flee world’s worst epidemic in private jets,” the U.S. newspaper The Daily Beast reported on April 24.
The report quoted the London Times as saying that eight private planes carrying the Indian super-rich landed at London airports before 4 a.m. local time on April 24. The last arriving luxury airliner landed at 3:15 a.m., just 44 minutes before the UK’s restrictions on India took effect.
According to the report, the UK recently put India on the “red list” for the Communist virus outbreak. From April 24, any Briton returning from India must be quarantined for 10 days in a government-approved hotel; all non-British and non-Irish citizens who have been to India in the past 10 days will be banned from entering the UK altogether.
Reports say the passengers on the private planes are fleeing “unimaginable horrors” in India.
A new wave of the epidemic, which began in mid-March, is sweeping through India at an alarming rate. In Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, the number of deaths from the new crown has spiked, and not only is there a shortage of medical resources, but the funeral industry is also facing a number of challenges, with many families of patients who have died from the Communist virus unable to pay for the transportation of their remains.
The director of a local crematorium said the number of bodies they receive has increased fivefold in recent weeks, and many bodies “have to wait in line to be cremated. Several local crematoriums are experiencing a backlog of remains, and there is a shortage of cremation space and firewood.
According to the latest epidemic data released by the Indian health department on April 24, in the past 24 hours, India has 346,786 new confirmed cases, continuing to refresh the previous day’s record of 332,000 new cases in a single day, with a total of 166,104,881 confirmed cases; among them, 2,624 new deaths, with a total of 189,544 deaths.
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