The only graveyard dedicated to Covid-19 victims in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka is seeing a substantial increase in burials amid a fresh wave of infections that has forced the country into an extended lockdown, Reuters reports.

The Rayerbazar graveyard, which sits on the outskirts of north Dhaka, is the only place Covid-19 victims have been buried since April 2020. Burials spiked to over 100 in just the first two weeks of April. New plots are being dug at the 80-acre graveyard every day as a result.

"Every day 15 to 20 bodies arrive at this graveyard for burial, and for these bodies we prepared all these graves in advance. Thousands of people are dying," said Jasimuddin, the caretaker of Rayerbazar who goes by one name, after a burial on Wednesday.