: Photo diary: The emotional rollercoaster of caring for my parents as they fought the coronavirus #IndiaNEWS It was during the first wave that my parents got infected with Covid-19. My father is a bank

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Photo diary: The emotional rollercoaster of caring for my parents as they fought the coronavirus #IndiaNEWS
It was during the first wave that my parents got infected with Covid-19. My father is a bank employee, and he had not taken a single day of leave in months, even during the national lockdown. Bank employees are rarely regarded as Covid warriors but they put a lot in their jobs. My mother, a retired government employee and now a full-time housewife, also got infected. I was the third person in the house, but fortunately I was not infected. It allowed me do the household chores. It was a time of great uncertainty and fear. We figured out the basic problems of staying in isolation such as how to get food (from friends and relatives initially and then from a delivery service), where the garbage would go (we just collected it in a big bag), what to do with the dog who is used to going out twice a day (a relative took him to a dog creche).Since our family was the first to get the disease in our residential society, a middle-class row housing in the National Capital Region, we also experienced extreme reactions. Some neighbours called and offered unconditional help but other people spread rumours and tried to restrict entry...Read more

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