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A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS
India Today
|May 17, 2021
MASS CREMATIONS, THE SCRAMBLE FOR HOSPITAL BEDS, THE DESPERATE HUNT FOR MEDICAL OXYGEN, THE PUBLIC OUTCRY, THE PERSONAL TRAGEDIES—HOW COVID’S SECOND WAVE HAS EXPOSED THE ABJECT FAILURE OF THE INDIAN STATE
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SEARING HEAT Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as funeral pyres burn all around them
Bodies are lined up for the final rites before being consigned to the flames at the Hari Nagar crematorium in Delhi on May 2
SAY YOUR PRAYERS
A relative consoles a Covid infected girl as she lies gasping for air at the Indirapuram gurudwara in Ghaziabad, UP. The gurudwara provides free oxygen to those who don’t have access to it.
LIFE SUPPORT
A relative carries a patient as another lugs an oxygen cylinder at a gurudwara in Ghaziabad, UP. The Sikh temple has put up tents where free oxygen is supplied to struggling Covid patients
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