Pandemic’s Emotional Toll Saima Bhat reports the emotional toll of a pandemic involving alienation of husbands from wives, in-laws from daughters-in-law and engagements that families terminated fearing the irreversible damage by the infection will mar the lives of their wards Health workers extracting plasma from an individual who survived Covid-19 infection. The special camp in which cops donated their plasma was organised by SKIMS in Srinagar on July 22, 2020. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur As the spring arrived early 2019, the garden of Mirs’ at Bemina was full of different shades of daffodils. Excited to share the colours of spring foliage, the family had another reason to be happier: their only son, Aqib, had fathered his first child, a daughter. Aqib’s wife Sana’s parents at Hyderpora were also delighted at the motherhood of their only daughter.