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Published: 28 Jul 2021 10:13 AM BdST
Updated: 28 Jul 2021 10:16 AM BdST Vishal Meghwal looks at a photograph of his mother who died of COVID-19 in May this year at his home in Ajmer, India. June 24, 2021. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Deepak Sharma
It s been over a month since his mother died, but Vishal Meghwal can still hear her struggling to breathe as he desperately messaged friends to lend him money for the drugs she needed. );
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The coronavirus pandemic had already cost the 24-year-old his savings and his income from painting houses in Ajmer, a city of tombs and shrines in northwest India. Losing his mother was the biggest blow of all.
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