India’s massive second wave appears to possess peaked, but the state remains to report quite a quarter-million cases per day. In recent days, hundreds of more bodies of COVID-19 victims have been discovered floating in the Ganges River. Munia Iffat reports.

• India has reported on Friday 259,551 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,209.
• Health ministry data showed that the South Asian nation's infection tally stands at 26.03 million, with a death toll of 291,331.
• A source revealed, hundreds of more bodies of COVID-19 victims have been discovered floating in the Ganges River.
• It’s adding to evidence that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is concealing the true toll from its failed response to the crisis.
• Last Sunday, one of India’s top virologists quit a key COVID panel after complaining that scientists are facing a “stubborn response to evidence-based policymaking.”

Meanwhile, senior members of the ruling party are prescribing the drinking of cow urine to combat COVID-19 and journalists are being arrested for warning people that cow urine and cow dung are not a cure.