COVID-19 Kills 6 In Bhopal, All Were Exposed To Union Carbide Gas Leak
The six deaths linked to the COVID-19 virus in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal were of people exposed to the toxic methyl isocyanate gas that leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the city in 1984 and killed over 20,000 people. The six who died, like the 5.74 lakh people who survived that disaster, had weakened immune systems, which allowed infection by the novel coronavirus
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