My dad was a long-standing councillor, a ceremonial mayor, a man who loved the people in his community. The community loved him too. His loss is life-changing and we are having to step up to the plate to stick together to fill his massive boots, which we will never fill, but we are going to try. The virus has hit us hard. I don t know how this is going to end. Image: Abdul Karim Sheikh died in April last year from coronavirus
To add to his grief, Naeem believes that in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, he may have unwittingly infected his father.