People stand outside Nimtala Crematorium, where a coronavirus positive patient Samir Kumar Mitra was cremated on March 23, in Kolkata, India. On Facebook, users left abusive messages on Samir's account, accusing him of meeting with Satyaki and his American wife and bringing the deadly virus to Kolkata, a sprawling city of 4.5 million people. — Reuters
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: When Satyaki Mitra's father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn't especially worried. He told his 57-year-old father, living in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, to get tested for the new coronavirus.
The initial test came back negative, but Samir Kumar Mitra's condition steadily worsened.
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