On Video Call From China, Wife Watched Covid Victim's Cremation In India

While the last rites were carried out by a volunteer in Indore, Manoj Sharma's wife attended the cremation through video-call from China.

As the second wave of the pandemic in India brings stories of devastation and heart-break, an Indian woman in China went through the most painful and traumatic process on Tuesday. She had to watch the cremation of her husband on video-call. Manoj Sharma, who worked in a bank in China, was in Madhya Pradesh's Indore to take care of an unwell relative. It was during this visit that the 40-year-old contracted COVID-19. He died at Indore's Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday. A day later, his body was cremated in Indore with the consent of his family in China, the police said.