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Mass. residents from India, Brazil watch COVID-19 horrors unfold in their native countries
By Laura Crimaldi and Lucas Phillips Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent,Updated May 2, 2021, 1 hour ago
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In Shrewsbury, Sewa International volunteers Kumar Subramanian (left) and Geena Virmani called another volunteer in India as they tried to locate a hospital bed for a patient they are trying to help.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Her uncle is dead and her parents both fell ill, victims of the second COVID-19 wave in India that in the past week has produced
daily averages of 371,000 new cases and 3,300 deaths.
The incumbent chief minister's party in India's West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in a state election held as the coronavirus pandemic surged to crisis levels.