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‘A lot of people are going to die’: a frontline doctor’s account of Covid-19 crisis in India

India is in the grip of a spiralling Covid-19 crisis, with more than 20 million infections and 220,000 deaths recorded across the country. Dr Abbas Ali Khatai is on the front line of the pandemic fight at a hospital in New Delhi. He spoke with South China Morning Post reporter Alkira Reinfrank about the mental strain created by the second wave of coronavirus in India, where he and his colleagues have to contend with a lack of beds and oxygen for their patients.

May 5, 2021