For Vijay, a 32-year-old healthy working professional in the national capital, testing positive for Covid-19 was bad news. Within no time, the symptoms became severe with respiratory complications, and his family rushed from one hospital to another earlier this week to find a ventilator bed but to no avail. Critical, he passed away on Thursday, leaving his near and dear ones bereaved.

As a lethal second Covid wave hits people in all age groups, including children below age 12 and even infants, those between 30 and 45 years of age, who were spared last year, are now falling victims amid acute shortage of ventilator beds in the national capital and beyond, according to health experts. The novel coronavirus that has gone through several mutations is hitting healthy adults with some kind of a vengeance.