Grief and shock overwhelmed 30-year-old Nageena when doctors at the JLN District Hospital in Nagaur, Rajasthan, informed her on April 14 that her newborn baby, Arman, was, like her, Covid positive. From her bed in the isolation ward, Nageena’s eyes searched for her family: her in-laws, nine-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, who suffers from cerebral palsy. They were all in the vicinity, on separate beds—battling COVID-19. Nageena’s husband, Mohammed Javed, was far away in Jaipur, in the Covid ward of SMS Hospital. The 34-year-old had returned from Mumbai, where he worked at a tea stall, on March 24 and developed fever subsequently. He tested positive on April 12.
At one go, Covid had knocked out this family of seven from Basni, a village of 30,000 people near Nagaur that has…
