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As coronavirus engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair
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Last Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 10:57 AM IST
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In the U.S., where half of the adult population has gotten at least one COVID-19 shot, the talk has been of reopening, moving forward and healing. But for Indian Americans, the daily crush of dark news from ``desh, the homeland, is a stark reminder that the pandemic is far from over.
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Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts informing millions of members of India s worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus.
As coronavirus engulfs India, its global diaspora watches with despair
Many Indian Americans are wracked with guilt over emerging from more than a year of isolation as relatives overseas struggle to find vaccines, hospital beds and, fatefully, their breath.
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Ankur Chandra, 38, talks about his father s experience with COVID-19, during an interview Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo | AP) By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts informing millions of members of India s worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus.
As virus engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair
MALLIKA SEN, Associated Press
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1of3Ankur Chandra, 38, talks about his father s experience with COVID-19, during an interview Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in New York. The New York-based consultant s father is now recovering from COVID-19, alone in an apartment in India’s national capital region of Gurugram.David Martin/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3Ankur Chandra, 38, shows various websites he uses to keep track of coronavirus news in India as he talks about his father s experience with COVID-19, during an interview Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in New York. The New York-based consultant s father is now recovering from COVID-19, alone in an apartment in India’s national capital region of Gurugram.David Martin/APShow MoreShow Less