Dispatch From India, Where COVID Corpses Burn Around The Clock
The raging COVID-19 epidemic, combined with an acute shortage of oxygen, has created a nightmare scenario in places like Nashik, in the northern part of Maharashtra state. 2020-04-27
NASHIK Neeta waits patiently for her number to be called, so that she can bid a final farewell to her father and go back home. It s already been four hours since she came to the Amar Dham crematorium, where there is a backlog of bodies waiting to be cremated. One of those belongs to Neeta s father, Yashwant Koladkar, who died in a hospital in Nashik, due to lack of oxygen, after fighting a severe COVID-19 infection for six days.