For many of us, particularly those privileged enough to not have lost a close family member or friend to Covid (India’s official Covid death toll is over 500,000 but WHO’s unreleased estimate, according to The New York Times, is 4 million), the memories of those days have receded as we “moved on” and returned to normalcy, with cases having declined significantly and the risk of infection and disease minimised with vaccination. But for those like Morris at the frontlines in April and May, the journey has been different.
