قBlack fungusق robs some in India of eyesight July 01 2021 11:50 PM
Text Size: Reuters/ Mumbai Saheb Rao Shinde’s family thought the worst was over when the 65-year-old recovered from Covid-19 last month at his home in western India.
But a few weeks later, the revenue-stamp vendor lost sight in one eye. After a catastrophic second wave of Covid-19 in India since April which has seen its overall death toll climb to almost 400,000, thousands who contracted the virus also suffered from a rare fungal disease called mucormycosis, or “black fungus”.
The country – which has more than 30.4mn confirmed Covid infections, second only to the US – has so far reported more than 40,845 cases of mucormycosis.
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