India’s COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way
Relatives carry the body of a loved one at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 27, as India endures the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak. Credit – Saumya Khandelwal for TIME
Dusk is falling in the Indian capital, and the acrid smell of burning bodies fills the air. It’s the evening of April 26, and at a tiny crematorium in a Delhi suburb, seven funeral pyres are still burning. “I have lived here all my life and pass through this area twice a day,” says local resident Gaurav Singh. “I have never seen so many bodies burning together.”
Scenes of mass death are now unavoidable in what’s often called the world’s largest democracy. Social media is filled with images of body bags and urgent requests
