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During the Covid-19 pandemic, my grandmother was taken to hospital after a fall.

She had terminal cancer and had bruised herself. Due to the hospital’s restrictions on visitors in effort to prevent Covid-19 spreading, I couldn’t visit her. Eventually, my dad asked me to send her a voice note, since she was too weak to text or call. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, recording a message knowing it was goodbye without saying it or getting a response. I never saw her again, and five more people I knew died over the pandemic too.

This story chimes with many of ours, whether we had loved ones die from the virus or other means, our experiences were altered and limited, meaning millions of us around the world are living with grief.

Yet this grief is unique, for many reasons:

All grief is different, but we can ride the wave together - how we can deal with Covid grief