Mumbai: Covid-positive man dies in Virar, but BMC's data reflects zero deaths

Updated On: 12 March, 2021 08:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma

Sources in the Rural Hospital, where the 25-year-old was declared brought dead and his body tested positive later, say VVCMC is neglecting their report, youth had earlier visited JJ hospital to get treatment for fever and cough

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Residents of Vasai-Virar get tested for COVID. Pic/Hanif Patel

Even as a 25-year-old died of COVID-19 in Virar on Tuesday and the doctors at Rural Hospital alerted the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), its official data reported no deaths on Tuesday.

mid-day has accessed the death report of the youth who was brought dead to the hospital on March 9 at 11:30 pm. The doctors suspected some foul play and alerted police to conduct a panchnama so that a post-mortem can be done.