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‘October’ Actress Banita Sandhu Tests Positive For COVID-19, Refuses Treatment At Govt Hospital

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British actress Banita Sandhu, who is in Kolkata to shoot for a movie, tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday and was admitted to a private hospital after she refused to be treated in a government facility, health department sources said.

Sandhu, who was shooting for ‘Kavita & Teresa’, reached the city on December 20 and she travelled in the same flight with the youth who tested positive for the mutant coronavirus strain on his return from the United Kingdom.

She tested positive for Covid on Monday afternoon and steps were initiated to ascertain whether she has been infected with the new strain, an official said.

After Sandhu was taken to the Beliaghata Infectious Diseases Hospital where a separate unit has been set up to keep those who returned from the UK, the 23-year-old actress refused to come out of the ambulance alleging that the hospital lacked proper infrastructure.

“We had to inform the state secretariat and the health department as she was unwilling to come out of the ambulance and at one point of time, she wanted to leave.

“The British High Commission was informed as we cannot let her go like this which is against the protocol. We had to inform the police also. They (police personnel) came and surrounded the ambulance so that she cannot leave,” the official said.

Sandhu, who co-starred with Varun Dhawan in ‘October’, was counselled several times by senior doctors of the hospital but their efforts went in vain.

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