Inside India's COVID Hell

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India’s crematoriums and hospitals can’t keep up with a second wave of Covid-19 patients. Priests are working 24 hour days to perform last rites, people are buying medicine off the black market, and hospitals are running out of oxygen as India faces around 400,000 new cases, and more than 3,000 deaths a day. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo #VICENews #News

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