Mangaluru: COVID-19 patient attempts suicide near Clock Tower after testing positive for virus
Mangaluru: A man who tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday, attempted suicide while being taken to hospital on an ambulance. The man has been identified as a migrant labour worker hailing from Uttarakhand.
According to the reports, the patient was working at the construction site of Clock Tower in Hampankatte of the city here. After showing symptoms, he was admitted to a private hospital where his swab samples were sent for COVID-19 testing.
When his samples tested positive for the virus, the health department officials arrived to shift him to Wenlock District Hospital on Ambulance.
While being taken to the hospital, the man escaped from the ambulance and attempted suicide near the clock tower here. Bunder Police then reached the spot and persuaded the man and sent him to Wenlock Hospital.
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Low visibility prevents PM’s helicopter from landing in Taherpur, Modi returns to Kolkata airport
Kolkata (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter failed to land at the Taherpur helipad in West Bengal owing to low visibility on account of dense fog in the area on Saturday, an official said.
The PM’s chopper made a U-turn after hovering over the helipad ground for a while and returned to the Kolkata airport, he said.
Till reports last received, the Prime Minister was waiting at the airport for further updates on the weather situation.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Modi would reach the rally venue district by road or whether he would wait for the weather to clear up and make another attempt to reach Taherpur by the aerial route, the official said.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister reached Kolkata at around 10.40 am and took a chopper onward to Taherpur in Nadia district, where he is scheduled to hold an administrative programme to launch highway projects in West Bengal, followed by a political rally of the BJP, titled Parivartan Sankalpa Sabha, which he is supposed to address.
