A second crisis is killing survivors of India's worst Covid wave
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Srinivas S. lies on a gurney in an operating theater in St John's Hospital in Bengaluru as surgeons carefully remove bits of blackened tissue and rotten bone from his face.
The 41-year-old driver is one of more than 45,000 Indians infected with black fungus -- or mucormycosis -- since the start of the country's second Covid-19 wave in late March. Like Srinivas, the vast majority of sufferers -- around 85% -- were Covid-19 patients, according to India's Health Ministry. By July, more than 4,300 people had died from the fungal infection.More Related News