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Vacation in the time of Corona

By Neeharika NS
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Standard VII, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Vattiyoorkavu

Before the last semester exam, we started thinking of the summer time. I shared my
thoughts with my parents and sister. After a long discussion, we decided to go to Hyderabad
with friends’ family as well as to Thekkady with grandparents and cousins. We started
googling pictures of tourist places and reading travel guides. After some weeks, annual
exams approached. We got our timetable ready for the exam. We stopped thinking of the
tour and started preparing for the exams.

Corona Cuts Tour

After the first exam, the novel pandemic COVID-19 reached Hyderabad. We became sad
and dropped our first plan, to go to Hyderabad, unhappily. But our expectations did not end.
Kerala was not yet affected by corona. But just before the second exam, Kerala reported its
first corona case. Within a few days, the number of patients increased and the Kerala