As the country faces the world's worst coronavirus crisis, children want to know: Will I catch it? Will grandfather die? What's it like to be an orphan?
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How do orphans live? the 6-year-old wanted to know. [My wife and I] were really taken aback, 43-year-old Banglani, who works in finance, tells NPR.
This was in late April when India was near the peak of its second coronavirus outbreak, the largest in the world. The country was seeing as many as 400,000 new cases in a day and more than 4,000 daily deaths from COVID-19. Shortages of hospital beds, medical oxygen and medicines were rampant, and mass cremations were underway in many cities.
Banglani s younger son had developed a habit of tracking the pandemic. It s very unnatural and unsettling when a 6-year-old comes to you every day and says, show me the number of deaths today in the country, Banglani says.