The family of a 41-year-old woman has claimed that she died because she was not given a remdesivir injection, as doctors insisted they could not give it unless they had her COVID-19 test report, but it was delayed by the BMC. She had been admitted to the Jumbo COVID Centre at BKC on April 10, and her husband finally got the report on Thursday, a day after she died at a private hospital. Shockingly, the report says she is COVID negative.

According to Rajesh Sawant, his wife Rajeshwari had symptoms of the virus. “As she was complaining of difficulty in breathing, I took her to a BMC centre for a COVID test on April 10. Her antigen test was negative but the doctor told us to get the RT-PCR test done. In the evening I received a call from the R South municipal ward office war room to get my wife admitted to the COVID centre at Bandra Kurla Complex, as doctors suspected she had COVID,” said Sawant.