Jitender Singh Shunty (in yellow turban) from the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal speaks with the relatives of a 57-year-old coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim before taking the body for the cremation in New Delhi, India, November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Wearing a yellow turban and white overalls, Jitender Singh Shunty and three of his coworkers carefully pulled the body of a 57-year-old COVID-19 victim out of his bedroom in a house in New Delhi's west and onto an ambulance waiting downstairs.
A second ambulance from Shunty's non-profit medical service carrying three other COVID-19 patients joined them on the Indian capital's clogged roads for a trip to a crematorium in the city's east.
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