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Images of Indian people gasping for breath and dying in cramped hospital rooms, screams of parents and children beseeching emergency medical care for a family member or who lost a loved one, and widespread cremations and burials are deeply agonizing.
Some doctors and health workers have been physically assaulted, bearing the brunt of the people’s anger and desperation.
An apocalyptic surge of COVID-19 cases has been bludgeoning India for two weeks now, with no apparent end in sight for the sufferings and deaths.
India, the world’s second most populated country (some 1.4 billion people), has recorded more than 21 million infections, with some 400,000 daily cases and around 4,000 deaths per day. More than 230,000 have died of the virus. The numbers continue to rise.