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Lockdown has added to the pain of my mum's Covid death

8 February 2021

5:28 AM

8 February 2021

5:28 AM

Last week, my mum died. In just a few short minutes, she went from being a living, breathing human, to a mere number on the list of daily Covid stats. She’d been on a ventilator in ITU for three weeks, unconscious and fighting for her life. But then, on Thursday, her organs failed, and the machines were switched off.

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