An NHS director fears for her unvaccinated 82-year-old mother in India as Covid-19 cases in the country hit a terrifying one million in three days.
Sumita Singha, 56, non-executive director at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, moved to the UK from India in 1988.
Her mother Namita Sinha lives with Sumita's sister in an apartment in Delhi where coronavirus cases are spiralling out of control and hospitals are turning away patients after running out of medical oxygen and beds.
Makeshift mass cremations are being held to deal with the scale of the deaths, with reports of grieving relatives being forced to keep bodies of loved ones at home for days while they try to find space.