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Covid in India: Grief and worry consume expats in the UAE
Anjaly Thomas/Dubai Filed on May 6, 2021 | Last updated on May 7, 2021 at 12.24 pm
As India gets battered with the second wave of Covid-19, for the Indian diaspora, the battle to maintain sanity has become a constant with them wondering when they can visit family and friends back home again
Grim pictures fill the TV screen. From one news channel to the next I surf in hope. But the image is unchanged. People scrambling for oxygen cylinders, funeral pyres burning out of control, wailing children, families devastated by a virus and a situation out of control. It is the same story online and on social media. The world’s attention is fixed firmly on the state my country is in. From what I see and hear, the second wave blowing through India is far deadlier than the one that took away one of my parents in September last year.
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