Ben and Isaac talk to their grandparents Sue and Alan through a window, as they self-isolate at their home in Knutsford, CheshireFrom giving birth alone to broken relationships and missed chances to say goodbye to dying relatives, Times readers have shared their stories from the spring of 2020. “We had no hugs or laughter at happier times, no joint consolation at the awful way we had to say goodbye to our dad, on a Zoom call, as he lay gasping for his final breaths in a nursing home, dying of Covid,” one reader recalled. SponsoredAs Boris Johnson finally apologised yesterday for attending a Downing Street garden party during lockdown, hundreds of readers wrote in with the sacrifices they made and moments they missed because of coronavirus restrictions at the time. “I gave birth completely alone and then my husband met our daughter in a car park,”

Source: The Times January 13, 2022 09:44 UTC