For the family of the retired diplomat in Gurgaon, India, the terror struck as they tried desperately to get him past the entrance of a private hospital. For the New Delhi family, it came when they had to create a hospital room in their first-floor apartment. For the son of an illiterate woman who raised her three children by scavenging human hair, it came as his mother waited days for a bed in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Bengaluru.
Three families in a nation of 1.3 billion people. Seven cases of COVID-19 in a country facing an unparalleled surge, with