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Anchal Vohra, Michael Kugelman, Kapil Komireddi

Mourning in India

Health workers arrange beds for COVID-19 patients at a care center in Amritsar, India, on May 9. Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

NEW DELHI—In a dark, empty garage, Shantanu Tiwari laid a cloth sheet on the concrete floor. His legs shook as he put down a plastic sheet over the cloth. He couldn’t let his father lie on the dirt—not even in death. Upstairs, his mother, held in isolation, fought tears to catch a breath.

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