Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester's 55,000-strong Indian community watched the news reports in horror as the Covid death toll on the sub-continent topped 200,000 this week.
They could make phone or Zoom calls and even send money to cover medical bills, but in reality they were powerless in the face of tsunami of new infections that has brought the country's healthcare system to the point of collapse Hospital cases and deaths are reaching record highs with each passing day, overwhelming healthcare workers, while patients are suffocating because hospitals’ oxygen supplies have run out.