BENGALURU - Garment workers in India are struggling as a ferocious second wave of COVID-19 has seen the number of new cases reach more than 360,000 per day and the death toll pass 200,000.
India is among the world's largest producers of textiles and apparel with an estimated 45 million people working in the industry which is among the oldest in the world.
Bengaluru, state capital of Karnataka and home to one of the biggest clusters of garment manufacturers in India, has seen the biggest rise in COVID cases after the national capital of Delhi.
