Page 6 - Seniors Today - June 2021 Issue

Cover Story

Shock Wave

The second wave of Covid-19, while leaving us reeling, has also renewed
our commitment towards health and urged us to value our lives more than
ever before, writes Dr Aditya Agarwal

The spring of 2021 was upon us. There rising numbers of cases.
was euphoria all around and there was a Initially, the disease was sporadically
belief that the worst was behind us. Gloom showing up in small clusters where it
and despair were giving way to optimism. affected certain towns and cities but was
Economic activity was beginning to pick up contained in that geographical border.
and people were happy to go back to their In the first such national surge we saw
workplace. Public transport, the lifeline of about 93,000 patients turning positive
any urban area, was slowly being opened on a single day ie, September 16, 2020.
up to all. Life had become a celebration and However, this time around it was over a
people were cherishing that with parties for four-fold increase and we saw 4,14,000
any and every occasion. patients turn positive on May 6, 2021.
People began socialising, something they
missed for a majority of 2020. There were
large congregations of people for elections,
political and religious activities, and
celebrations of different hues.
But just as life was returning to normalcy,
we began to see a new spate of cases of
Covid-19, one district at a time. The enemy
had slowly and surreptitiously started
to surround us. Each day brought new
records. District after district was reporting

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