Seoul's foreign ministry considering raising travel alert for India amid virus surge

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Over in India.
The total number of COVID-19 cases rose well past 18 million after its daily tally set another world record.
Gravediggers work around the clock to bury victims and cremations are held in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots.
Seoul is coordinating with the country to bring Korean nationals home from India.
Kim Sung-min reports.
It's the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,... but Mumbai grave digger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin cannot fast this year he's been working day and night as the death toll from COVID-19 soars in India.

"I'm not able to fast. It's summertime and my work is really hard. We work 24 hours everyday. How will I keep my fast when it's so hot? I feel thirsty for water. I need to dig graves, I need to cover them with mud, need to carry dead bodies. With all this work, how can I fast?"

He's just one of the hundreds and thousands who have been at this tragic scene for the last couple of days.
Parks and parking lots have turned into temporary crematoriums,... bodies being burned on rows and rows of funeral pyres.

India is in the midst of a second wave of the pandemic,...with at least 300-thousand people a day testing positive for the past week.
Its official death toll has reached over 200-thousand.
However, medical experts believe actual COVID-19 numbers may be five to ten times greater than the official tally.

The international community is making efforts to ease the critical oxygen shortages in the country and South Korea is no exception.
Diplomatic sources in Seoul are currently in discussions with India to send aid worth around 4-million U.S. dollars which would include medical equipment.
In fact, on Friday, 14 medical oxygen generators arrived in New Delhi, given to a South Korean residents association in India just two days after their request.
And to bring back Koreans in India who want to return home, the South Korean government and India have agreed... to double the number of flights next month to 12 from the previously planned 6.
This comes as the number of Korean residents in India who've tested positive for the virus, as of Thursday, rose to 1-hundred-and-28.
Seoul is also mulling raising the travel alert for India to "red," which advises South Korean citizens to leave India unless there are essential reasons to stay.

With a rapid resurgence of cases in countries like India, global coronavirus cases topped 150 million according to Johns Hopkins University as of Friday.
Kim Sung-min, Arirang News

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2021-04-30, 22:00 (KST)