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Kunal Purohit, Rukmini S

India Is Seeing a Terrifying Second Wave of COVID-19

A man wearing personal protective equipment performs the last rites for a relative who died from COVID-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 20. Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images

“My oxygen is 31 when some[one] will help me[?]”

This was the last of a series of tweets from Vinay Srivastava before he died in his home on April 17 in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, gasping for breath, his blood oxygen level far below the norm of 95 to 100.

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