A year after: A nation altered by the viral second wave

India has the highest seven-day Covid-19 case trajectory seen in any country and the grim distinction of most single-day infections in any country ever since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic....

Apr 22, 2021, 12:59 IST3 min

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Rajesh Ujala, a contract health worker, is a familiar figure at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium in New Delhi, the capital"s largest, witnessing the ebb and crest of deaths that have passed f...

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On February 21 last year, Sunil Rampuria hosted a vibrant group of Italian tourists at Gaj Kesri, his elegant art hotel in Bikaner. Two weeks later, the Italians, journeying onward on the t...

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For the 40-year-old housewife Shrijamol from Kaniyambetta, Wayanad, it is an everyday struggle managing the household and a school-going son on her mother’s meagre widowers’ pension. Separa...

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As the head of digital marketing at a reputed FMCG in Bengaluru, Dipti Sudhir deals with many video call meetings in a day, a norm for many in the work-from-home scenario that the pandemic ...

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When the pandemic hit, Robotics Warehouse Automation company Addverb Technologies were in the midst of building an ambitious new facility called "Bot valley" for manufacturing robots in Noi...

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The Covid-19 situation may have rapidly deteriorated in New Delhi with the positivity rate at 32 percent, the highest-ever in the capital. Which would make this scene at Delhi’s Sadar Bazar...

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About sixty six kilometers from Haridwar—where the ongoing Kumbh Mela gathering of lakhs has been curtailed after many tested positive for the virus—is the agricultural heartland of Shahidw...

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A police officer patrols on a segway scooter on the deserted Marine Drive promenade during the night curfew following the rise in Covid-19 cases in Mumbai. The arc of this promenade is othe...

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A banquet hall in New Delhi"s Daryaganj has become the first facility to be converted into a Covid-19 care centre to cope with the surge of cases. Linked with the biggest Covid-19 state-run...

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