Electric crematoriums across the city have started to feel the COVID-19 heat with more and more bodies coming in daily. Two of them had to be shut due to faults because of overuse. The others are being put to use round the clock with the death toll in the city increasing.

The BMC has a total of 11 crematoriums. An employee of the Chandanwadi crematorium in South Mumbai said, "It-s been three days we haven-t switched off the furnace. COVID bodies come in at any time of the day, so we can-t keep them waiting. On an average, we get 10 bodies every day. Each body takes at least two to three hours to burn completely."