For Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, covering India’s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in New Delhi is a daily circuit of crematoriums, cemeteries and hospitals, capturing the struggles of a nation of 1.4 billion people. In late April when he arrived at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in the capital, a public hospital with 400 Covid ICU beds, he knew the situation might be chaotic, but was not prepared for what he saw: patients in a critical condition on trolleys outside the ICU, gasping for air, some dying before being admitted.

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Danish Siddiqui

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