The faces of India's coronavirus pandemic as deaths hit 100,000

Jigeshaben Sanket Surti, 34, a housewife, shows a picture on her phone of her father Dineshbhai Gangaram Khanvanshi, 64, a retired banker, who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as she poses for a photograph, in Ahmedabad, India, September 27, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.

Reuters met and interviewed relatives of 30 people who died of the virus in India, from coastal Kerala on the country's southern tip to the Himalayan region of Kashmir in the north.