St. Xavier’s University has opened care centers in Kolkata to treat people with COVID-19 who have no place to isolate at home.
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.Relatives of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 mourn over the casket before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi April 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters) .People lower the body of a man who died of COVID-19 into a grave at a cemetery in Ahmedabad, India, May 3, 2021. (CNS photo/Amit Dave, Reuters) .A statue of Christ is pictured over the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi April 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)
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THRISSUR, India (CNS) Amid thousands dying daily of COVID-19, even in rural areas of India, the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on church leaders.
Health workers wearing personal protective equipment carry wood to prepare for a mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium in New Delhi April 26, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
India is leading the world in the number of coronavirus infections. On May 2, Reuters reported that India s new daily COVID-19 cases passed 400,000 for the first time, as the second wave worsened. Reuters reported May 6 with information from India s Health Ministry that a record 412,262 new cases and 3,980 deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, taking total infections past 21 million and the overall death toll to 230,168.
Almost everyone I know is affected by the second wave in one way or the other. Some are infected, some have lost (or fear losing) a family or a community member, a friend, a neighbor, a colleague. Most are living in isolation, unable to express apprehension and anxiety, unable to go out and do something.
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