India Coronavirus Dispatch: Bengal's frontline workers fret over Durga Puja

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Frontline workers on Durga Puja: As West Bengal celebrates its biggest festival, health experts and frontline workers express their worry over what might happen. Their apprehensions, they say, began with Durga Puja shopping season which saw crowded markets with unmasked people. Doctors who have worked without a single day off for months say the situation — despite court orders — is disheartening. Any potential surge in cases means an already stretched public healthcare system is forced to on even higher burden. Particularly demoralising is the fact that many health workers have succumbed to the virus already. It’s not just doctors