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The Terrible Cost of India’s Second Wave

India’s explosion of Covid-19 cases is devastating its fashion manufacturing and retail sectors, adding to the human suffering and making clear that no country is truly free from coronavirus until we all are.
Relatives of a Covid-19 victim performing the last rites at a crematorium in New Delhi, India. Getty Images.
Relatives of a Covid-19 victim performing the last rites at a crematorium in New Delhi, India. Getty Images.

This week, as the world’s worst coronavirus crisis gripped India, devastating images of mass burials and cremations, and desperate people seeking help at unbearably full hospitals, filled news reports.

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