India's tragic COVID surge is showing no let-up, as daily cases stay above the 300,000 mark with more grim examples of people's desperation, including scores of bodies turning up in some of the country's rivers.Increases elsewhere in Asia are also raising concerns, even in Taiwan, which has been widely praised for keeping cases and deaths at extremely low levels.Bodies turn up in riversAfter 4 days of daily cases above 400,000, India's daily totals have dropped slightly, but the virus is now spreading to more rural areas amid continued grim reports from the pandemic's worst surge.
Global health officials have said they believe India's officials figures are a vast undercount of its disease burden.Overburdened crematories and high-priced