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    India's second COVID-19 wave ravages nation's countryside

    MUMBAI, India – One by one, the villagers fell sick. It started with a fever, then breathlessness. By then, it was too late. There was no medicine, oxygen or hospital nearby to save them. Their bodies had to be carried by family to the river and cremated. "I knew all of them," said Jitendra Hari Pandey, who estimated that more than 30 people in his village have died since the beginning of ...
    by David Pierson and Parth M.N., Los Angeles Times Jun 03, 2021 4 minutes

    MUMBAI, India – One by one, the villagers fell sick.

    It started with a fever, then breathlessness. By then, it was too late. There was no medicine, oxygen or hospital nearby to save them. Their bodies had to be carried by family to the river and cremated.

    "I knew all of them," said Jitendra Hari Pandey, who estimated that more than 30 people in his village have died since the beginning of April. "They were my neighbors and friends."

    They perished like thousands of others in India's cities. But because there was no COVID-19 testing in Kayamuddinpur Patti, a speck of land in Uttar Pradesh, one of the nation's poorest states, the villagers were not counted in the official tally of pandemic deaths.

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