A Hell Out Here : COVID-19 Ravages Rural India A Hell Out Here : COVID-19 Ravages Rural India Boosted by highly infectious variants, the second wave erupted in February to inundate hospitals and medical staff, as well as crematoriums and mortuaries. Experts still cannot say for sure when the figures will peak.
Healthcare workers transfer the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease.
India s coronavirus death count crossed 2,50,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead in rural hospitals or camp in wards to tend the sick.