Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is has crossed 100,000. Nearly 6.5 million...
Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is has crossed 100,000. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.
Reuters met and interviewed relatives of 30 people who died of the disease in India, from Kerala in the south to Kashmir in the north.
The 30 victims were ordinary people from all walks of life and included police officers and doctors on the frontlines of the fight against the virus.
Shakeel Ahmad Baba
Government employee
Khushboo, 26, a student, shows a picture on her phone of her father Shakeel Ahmad Baba, a government employee, who died due to Covid-19, as she poses for a photograph, in Srinagar, September 24.
“Our lives changed drastically after my father passed away, he was a loving father, a decision maker,” said Khushboo. “He died because of improper healthcare facilities in the hospital. He would have survived had there been a proper oxygen supply in the hospital. A day before his death I spoke to him on the phone and he told me to pray for him and the next day he passed away. His death left a great void in our entire family,”
Chitra Chatterjee
Housewife
