"She Must Have Been In So Much Pain": Father After Infant Dies Of Covid

Experts and doctors have repeatedly emphasized that the younger people are at a greater risk in the second wave of coronavirus that is leaving a trail of deaths in the country. The third wave, many have said, will be lethal for children.

Prahlad bid his last goodbye to his infant daughter Pari, just 150 days after she was born. Testing positive for Covid, she spent the last six days on a ventilator battling for her life.   Her inconsolable father told NDTV, "She was under treatment at the GTB Hospital... She must have been in so much pain but could not express it to us. The virus was so infectious and dangerous, it damaged her lungs completely".   The family did everything they could to save her. Her uncle even donated blood. "She was low on blood, so I donated my own. She needed A-positive," he told NDTV. In Delhi's Old Seemapuri area, politician and social worker Jitender Singh Shunty has been helping families perform the last rites of their loved ones amid this pandemic.