<p>Two or three months into the Covid-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves.</p>.<p>"I'm not scared of Covid, I've worked with courage. It's all about courage, not about fear," said the 52-year-old, who has been digging graves in the city for 25 years.</p>.<p>India is in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19 infections that has seen at least 3 lakh people test positive each day for the past week, and its Covid-19 death toll rise past 18 million.</p>.<p>Health systems and crematoria have been overwhelmed. In Delhi, ambulances have been taking the bodies of Covid-19 victims to makeshift crematoria in parks and parking lots, where bodies are burned on rows and rows of funeral pyres.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-ravages-india-with-over-379-lakh-new-covid-19-cases-3645-deaths-980347.html" target="_blank">Read | Coronavirus ravages India with over 3.79 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 3,645 deaths</a></strong></p>.<p>Kamruddin says he and his colleagues are working around the clock to bury Covid-19 victims.</p>.<p>"This is our only job. Getting the body, removing it from the ambulance, and then burying it," he said, adding that he hasn't had a holiday in a year.</p>.<p>Though it is the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Kamruddin told <em>Reuters</em> his trying job and the hot weather has kept him from fasting.</p>.<p>"My work is really hard," he said. "I feel thirsty for water. I need to dig graves, cover them with mud, need to carry dead bodies. With all this work, how can I fast?"</p>.<p>Yet Kamruddin's faith keeps him going, and he doesn't expect aid from the government any time soon.</p>.<p>"Our trust in our mosque is very strong," he said. "The government is not going to give us anything. We don't even want anything from the government."</p>
<p>Two or three months into the Covid-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves.</p>.<p>"I'm not scared of Covid, I've worked with courage. It's all about courage, not about fear," said the 52-year-old, who has been digging graves in the city for 25 years.</p>.<p>India is in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19 infections that has seen at least 3 lakh people test positive each day for the past week, and its Covid-19 death toll rise past 18 million.</p>.<p>Health systems and crematoria have been overwhelmed. In Delhi, ambulances have been taking the bodies of Covid-19 victims to makeshift crematoria in parks and parking lots, where bodies are burned on rows and rows of funeral pyres.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-ravages-india-with-over-379-lakh-new-covid-19-cases-3645-deaths-980347.html" target="_blank">Read | Coronavirus ravages India with over 3.79 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 3,645 deaths</a></strong></p>.<p>Kamruddin says he and his colleagues are working around the clock to bury Covid-19 victims.</p>.<p>"This is our only job. Getting the body, removing it from the ambulance, and then burying it," he said, adding that he hasn't had a holiday in a year.</p>.<p>Though it is the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Kamruddin told <em>Reuters</em> his trying job and the hot weather has kept him from fasting.</p>.<p>"My work is really hard," he said. "I feel thirsty for water. I need to dig graves, cover them with mud, need to carry dead bodies. With all this work, how can I fast?"</p>.<p>Yet Kamruddin's faith keeps him going, and he doesn't expect aid from the government any time soon.</p>.<p>"Our trust in our mosque is very strong," he said. "The government is not going to give us anything. We don't even want anything from the government."</p>