India’s famous Ganges funeral pyres at Varanasi burn low amid coronavirus lockdown

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: India’s nationwide lockdown starting on March 24, 2020, has been extended until May 3 and is now the largest curfew in the world to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus that causes Covid-19. As a result, the holy city of Varanasi is unusually empty and quiet. Normally the city cremates up to 300 bodies a day from all around the country, but now fewer than 40 funerals are done, all for local people. The usual teeming crow