Mukul Garg wasn't too stressed when his 57-year-old uncle built up a fever on 24 April. At that point, inside 48 hours, two others in his group of 17 likewise turned out to be sick.
The side effects streamed in true to form - temperatures spiked and voices became dry with hacking.
Mr Garg at first credited it to occasional influenza, reluctant to let it out could be coronavirus.
"Five or six individuals regularly fall wiped out together in this house, we should not freeze," he let himself know.
Throughout the following scarcely any days, five additional individuals in the house demonstrated Covid-19 side effects. Furthermore, the pit in his stomach developed.
Before long, the Garg family would turn into its own coronavirus group as 11 of its 17 individuals tried positive.
"We met no one all things considered and nobody went into our home. In any case, and still, at the end of the day the coronavirus panademic entered our home, and tainted one part after the other," Mr Garg would later write in his blog, which has since pulled in many remarks from perusers.
The thorough record shows how the multi-generational family, a backbone of Indian life, represents a one of a kind test in the battle against Covid-19.
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The nation's tough lockdown, which started on 25 March and went on until this week, concentrated on keeping individuals at home, off its bustling avenues and out of stuffed open spaces.
In any case, in India - where 40% of family units contain numerous ages (regularly three or even four living respectively under one rooftop) - home is a packed spot.
It's likewise powerless in light of the fact that examination shows that the infection is bound to spread inside.
"All families under lockdown become groups the second somebody is tainted, that is just about guaranteed," says virologist Dr Jacob John.
What's more, as the Gargs found, social removing is preposterous inside enormous families, particularly during a lockdown when you are cut off from the outside world.
'We felt so alone'
The Gargs live in a three-story home in a stuffed neighborhood in north-west Delhi.
Mr Garg, 33, his better half, 30, and their two kids, matured six and two, live on the highest floor, alongside his folks and grandparents.
On the two stories beneath them live his uncles - his dad's siblings - and their families. Individuals go from a four-month-old infant to an out of commission granddad of 90.
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Mr Garg says he composed the blog since he needed to connect with individuals stressed over looking for help.
"First and foremost, we thought such a great amount about what individuals would think. What's more, perusing the remarks, it's so ideal to see individuals saying it's alright on the off chance that you get it, it's not something to be embarrassed about."
In the second seven day stretch of May, side effects started to disappear and the family looked as an ever increasing number of negative tests came in, bringing help. This was likewise when Mr Garg's auntie was released from emergency clinic in the wake of testing negative.
They at long last felt like the most exceedingly terrible was finished.
Before the finish of May - "the period of the malady" as Mr Garg called it - just three individuals, including him, were as yet positive.
On 1 June, they got tried for the third time and the outcomes returned negative.
'Our best and most noticeably terrible'
India's enormous families and pregnant women also can be a wellspring of help and care, yet in addition erosion and prickly property questions. Be that as it may, on occasion like these they can likewise act the hero.
" Regardless of the difficulties, joint families profit by the youthful dealing with the old," Dr John says.
Cases in India have ran past the 250,000-mark, prodding a discussion about whether the pandemic could undermine more distant families, as youngsters stress over conveying the disease home to more established family members.
"It's a framework that has endure several years of an invasion of Western qualities and colonization," says Prof Kiran Lamba Jha, who shows human science at Kanpur's CSJM college. "Coronavirus won't crush the joint family."
The Gargs would concur.
Before the infection struck, the family was flourishing. It was practically suggestive of a 90s Bollywood flick, Mr Garg says.
"As a family, we had never hung out than we did that initial one month of the lockdown. It was likewise the most joyful the family had ever been," he says, including that it just made it harder to look as one individual after another fell wiped out.
Coronavirus: 'Our home transformed into a medical clinic short-term'
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