Abhi Nair stood at his bedroom window and took a photo of his father being rolled towards the back of an ambulance.
“It is heartbreaking,” he said.
Abhi’s father, Viswanathan Nair, is one of 31 people in Victoria struggling to overcome coronavirus in intensive care.
Viswanathan began feeling unwell in late June.
By July 4, he had been admitted to Footscray Hospital and eight days later, he was taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) and placed in a bed shielded with thick, transparent plastic.
The growing threat of coronavirus is illustrated in the cases and deaths released each day like clockwork.
But behind the statistics are families who are not only mourning the loss of those they loved, but grappling with the pain of not being able to say goodbye.
Abhi Nair hopes his family never becomes one of them.
His father is struggling to make progress, Abhi said.
“I guess there’s very slight improvement. The doctors have pretty much said it’s a very long journey for him to get better.