Kanika, whom we had featured in one of our recent Outlook covers, had recounted in harrowing details how her 54-year-old mother Raman – a resident of Delhi’s Vivek Vihar – had died a slow and painful death for lack of oxygen. Raman had tested positive for Covid some days after she had got her first jab. Yet, her condition worsened, and she found herself in a hospital that intermittently ran out of oxygen. Though Kanika and her sisters were also Covid positive, they ran around to get oxygen cylinders until one day when their luck ran out. Raman died.