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Fear and despair rules the streets of Baidpura village in northern India after a spate of deaths, as the country’s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeps through its vast rural landscape where access to testing centres and health services is scarce.
People are dying at homes without treatment
Bhavani Prasad, grieving villager
More than a dozen people died of Covid-19 this month in the village of 3,500 people, and many others are showing symptoms, residents say.
"The situation in the village is grim. There is not a single family that is not showing Covid symptoms – cough, fever, body ache. They are complaining of loss of taste and smell but no one is certain if it is covid,” said Mahavir Nagar, a resident of the village in Uttar Pradesh state.