India: Over the span of the last two months as India witnessed its worst second wave of coronavirus pandemic, the country lost as many as 270 doctors who have been at the forefront of the COVID-19 battle, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) revealed. Of them, 50 deaths were reported in a single day on Sunday. The list of the deceased doctors also includes eminent cardiologist and former IMA president Padma Shri Dr KK Aggarwal who died on Monday.
In the first wave last year, 736 doctors had died of the viral infection, taking the cumulative fatalities among doctors to nearly 1,000.
