Mumbai, India’s financial nerve centre, is in the grip of a vicious coronavirus outbreak that seems on the verge of overwhelming the city’s healthcare infrastructure.
Corpses are reported to be lying unattended in hospital hallways. Doctors are under extreme duress, as they endure long hours and acute scarcities for the sake of covid-19 patients.
Other health workers are at risk of contagion, too, and some nurses in the city went on protest over a delayed bed for one of their peers.
The daily surge in corona cases has frayed their nerves, and it is evident that Mumbai is struggling to cope. Worse, covid-19 has played vampire, sucking away resources from other ailments.