“When the nurse arrived to give him medicines around 11am, the migrant was hanging from the ceiling fan at the end of a bed sheet,” a hospital source said. (Shutterstock)A migrant worker from Purulia hanged himself in a Jharkhand hospital on Tuesday after a positive result for Covid-19 in a provisional test. On Monday night, he developed high fever and breathing problems and was rushed to the Covid-19 wing at the Lohardaga Sadar Hospital. He underwent a swab test in a TrueNat machine — meant to test for drug-resistant TB but whose use the ICMR has allowed for Covid-19 testing. “When the nurse arrived to give him medicines around 11am, he was hanging from the ceiling fan at the end of a bed sheet,” a hospital source said.

Source: The Telegraph June 09, 2020 20:26 UTC