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Covid: Indian diaspora struggles to help homeland 'gasping for air'

The number of daily new coronavirus cases in India on Saturday topped the 400,000 mark for the first time

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Bloomberg | Todd Gillespie and Kartikay Mehrotra

6 min read Last Updated : May 01 2021 | 3:15 PM IST

Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago: help its people breathe.

Rai, 53, who moved to Endicott, New York -- the birthplace of IBM -- from Punjab, in India, is the founder of Sanrai International, a provider of oxygen concentrators. With India now the epicenter of the pandemic, counting about 3,500 Covid-19 deaths daily, and oxygen supplies running out, Rai has rushed to help her former homeland cope with its worst crisis in recent history.

“This is probably the hardest time they’re going through,” Rai said of her

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