India Covid-19: 'No end in sight' as doctors battle second wave By Vikas Pandey image captionHealthcare workers are worried about what experts say could be a deadlier second wave It was the middle of January when Dr Lancelot Pinto realised he would be able to spend some quality time with his family after nearly a year. The pulmonologist had spent most of 2020 battling successive surges in Covid-19 cases at his hospital in Mumbai city. But by January this year daily infections across India had fallen to less than 20,000 from a peak of over 90,000 in September, and he could "see some light at the end of the tunnel".