NEW DELHI — Wearing a yellow turban and white overalls, Jitender Singh Shunty and three of his coworkers carefully pulled the body of a 57-year-old COVID-19 victim out of his bedroom in a house in New Delhi’s west and onto an ambulance waiting downstairs.
A second ambulance from Shunty’s non-profit medical service carrying three other COVID-19 patients joined them on the Indian capital’s clogged roads for a trip to a crematorium in the city’s east.
Before the novel coronavirus engulfed India, the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal helped cremate the unclaimed bodies of homeless people and others. This month, Shunty’s team has been flooded with calls from families of those dying at…
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