Corona: groom dies in Patna after two days of marriage, 111 people still infected

Posted on 1st Jul 2020 by rohit kumar

Even during the Corona era, marriages have not stopped, till the lockdown went on, only one or two weddings were heard. They were also online weddings.

 

But after Unlock-1, weddings including 50 guests were allowed from June 8. Then what was the secret, but in many places, marriages started as before.

 

When asked, the organizers of the wedding claim that they invited less than 50 people. A similar wedding is also in the headlines nowadays in Patna.

 

A wedding ceremony in Paliganj in Patna has raised questions about these events.

 

The news of a wedding was in the news on Tuesday in the local newspapers published from Patna. According to the newspapers, 111 people associated with the event have been found corona infected while the groom died two days later.

 

All those found infected are either related to the same locality in which they were married or were part of the wedding ceremony.

 

A person who has been infected due to this marriage of Paliganj has been kept in the Isolation Center at ESIC Hospital, Bihta.

 

"I had nothing to do with that wedding, I had not even attended the ceremony, but I have been in contact with people who were involved in the wedding ceremony and now they are Are also infected. "

 

According to them, the chain of infection has become so long that hawkers, photographers, local grocery shoppers, and vegetable vendors in the wedding have all become victims of infection.

 

The most interesting thing about this wedding that took place on June 15 is that the groom died on June 17, two days after the wedding, when the family reached him at AIIMS Hospital in Patna after allegedly complaining of stomach ache. Were.

 

The father of the groom, who is suffering from the infection, is currently admitted in the isolation center in the subdivision hospital of the draft.

 

He said in a phone conversation with the BBC, "Arriving at the gate of AIIMS, closing the car by turning the driver's key and my son's death all happened at the same time. However, we still took the body inside the hospital. The doctors there Investigated and declared dead. We were given a slip and told that it would be useful to take the death certificate. We brought the body from the hospital to our home and cremated it by custom. "

 

Discussion of marriage with the groom's death

With the death of the groom, the discussion of this marriage started by the people living nearby.

 

Aditya Kumar, a local journalist from Paliganj, says, "The groom was an engineer in Gurgaon. He came here by car on May 23 for his wedding. The wedding was already done. But as soon as the groom died, in the area, The wind started blowing that the bridegroom died of corona. People started talking about different things. Somebody said that the boy's health was bad, someone was saying that they were making him sweep. "

 

Aditya further adds, "People called the medical team by calling themselves out of fear. Nine infected were found in the first phase. Then on June 22, 15 more people reported positive. After this, the administration got into action and declared the area as a container zone." Granted. And everyone started getting screened. Now the figure has reached 111. Many are due to be investigated. "

 

Where is the groom's corona report?

As far as the groom's corona is examined, there is doubt about it.

 

On the one hand, the father of the groom says, "My son was very healthy. He had his checkup done in Gurgaon. Six people came with two brothers and sisters and children from the car. All of them were on the top floor of our house for 14 days. Quarantine was spent. He started living with us from June 6 because he had a tilak on June 8. "

 

The groom's father is said that his son has died. But even more sad is the fact that the people of the society are talking about him and his son about Corona.

 

The father further says, "People are blaming me. I talked to the hospital management twice for its medical report but it was not ready till then. During this time I was also examined and the report came positive. I could take a report because from June 23, I have also been kept in this Isolation Center. "

 

We talked to AIIMS director Prabhat Kumar about the corona examination of the groom. They express ignorance about the knowledge of any such case.

 

Prabhat said, "If there was such a case in our record, I would have known. As far as I know, no such case related to Corona has come here."

 

Unlock rules violation

By the way, according to the rules, in unlocked India, there is a rule to call only 50 people during the marriage. But so far 400 samples related to this marriage of Paliganj have been taken, of which 111 are positive.

 

Looking at the sample test data, it can be said that the number of people involved in marriage would have been more than 50 or very high. In such a situation, it is a violation of the rules of unlock.

 

Police station in-charge of Paliganj Sunil Kumar says, "They had taken the approval of 50 people. But now the investigation has revealed that more people were mobilized. We are getting all the people involved to be screened first. Action will be taken only when they spend the time of quarantine. "

 

BDO Chiranjeev Pandey says, "The teams at the subdivision hospital are working to identify people exposed to infected people. The special team of the health department will investigate all. Sanitation of mohallas is also going on. The kind of long-chain formed, there is a possibility that the number of infected people will not increase further. "