A Punjabi nurse who is suffering from long COVID describes what it is like working in a vaccine clinic.
![Nina Sharma working at the COVID vaccine clinic at the Nawanshahr government hospital in Punjab [Photo courtesy of Nina Sharma]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/5ea868fb-917d-492f-ad72-869ad321404f-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Sunny Shergill is a British-Punjabi freelance journalist. She writes about race, gender, identity as well as other issues of social justice.
A Punjabi nurse who is suffering from long COVID describes what it is like working in a vaccine clinic.
![Nina Sharma working at the COVID vaccine clinic at the Nawanshahr government hospital in Punjab [Photo courtesy of Nina Sharma]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/5ea868fb-917d-492f-ad72-869ad321404f-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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![Baljit Kaur, 50, is one of the farmers who have come to Delhi to protest against India's new agriculture laws [Akshay Kapoor/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Baljit-Kaur-50-credit-Akshay-Kapoor.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)