India: In Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur, a 45-year-old woman with coronavirus symptoms died on the road after the police allegedly refused to heed her husband’s pleas to let them cross the district border even when the man showed them prescriptions and a hospital slip. The police said they have received a complaint in the matter, but refuted the claim.
The woman, Bihani Devi, had been suffering from high fever, cough and cold for a week. Her husband, Ramadhar Panika, had hired a vehicle for the 100km journey to the Ambikapur District Hospital, but the couple was stopped at the Balrampur-Surajpur district border checkpoint and told to go back.
The woman died within the next 30 minutes, just 10 km from her village Gaina in Balrannpur.
