'This experience is horrifying. Doctors need psychiatrists to handle the trauma they are going through in the face of this pandemic'
A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes are illegal tender, at least 33 people have been reported dead in demonetisation-related incidents.
Most of those who tested positive either recently arrived from African countries or were in contact with such people.
Almost all the deceased were migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The apex court lashed out at the law enforcing agencies for allowing the 'instigators of violence' to get away and said they should act as per law without waiting for somebody's nod.
As the issue becomes increasingly politicised and accusations are traded on national television, the average Delhi resident suffers debilitating blows from viral fevers, writes Manavi Kapur.
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