A migrant worker from Assam has reportedly committed suicide in Maharashtra Hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
The 30-year-old from Nagaon district of Assam had come to Akola city of Maharashtra with a few other Tablighi Jamaat members after attending the Markaz event in Nizamuddin, New Delhi between March 6 and 8.
On developing symptoms of COVID-19, he himself had approached the Hospital and got admitted on April 7. However, after testing positive, the 30-year-old Assam man allegedly slit his throat in the washroom of the isolation ward.
He was undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here on April 7. He had tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, reports said.
Meanwhile, Police have registered an accidental death case.
Further details are awaited.
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