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Shocked by COVID deaths, young Indians rush for life insurance

People wearing protective face masks wait to receive a dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine at a vaccination centre in New Delhi, India, on May 4, 2021. [Reuters]

Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality.

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