Lokpal Member Dies of Coronavirus in Delhi. Govt Conceals Coronavirus Data
Reports reveal that Lokpal member Justice AK Tripathi died on Saturday (May 2) in Delhi, as he was suffering from coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. Tripathi, 62, had been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in Delhi on April 2.
Justice Tripathi, a former Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, had been battling with the disease in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the trauma care centre at AIIMS. According to the reports, he was also put on a ventilator after his condition turned critical.
Justice Tripathi was one of the four judicial members of Lokpal, a toothless anti-corruption authority which has failed to stop corruption in the country because it is surreptitiously controlled by the government.
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The Lokpal office building was sanitized after Tripathi tested positive for coronavirus. As the other Lokpal members also live in the same apartment in Delhi’s Kidwai Nagar, it was also sanitized. But the possibility of infection among more members cannot be ruled out.
Although Delhi is among the worst-hit states in India, the Delhi government under chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is not revealing the actual number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the city.
As there is hardly any test facility or healthcare centers in Delhi to handle coronavirus patients, it is believed that today there are hundreds of thousands of people who are infected in Delhi and thousands would have died.
