Quarantined man jumps off 3rd floor in Delhi hospital building, breaks legs

A man quarantined at the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash (LNJP) Hospital here allegedly jumped from a building to escape, fracturing his legs in the process, police said on Sunday.

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 Sharafat Ali, aged 37, is a resident of one of the DDA flats on Mata Sundari Road under the IP police station.

Delhi Police Central District DCP Sanjay Bhatia said that Ali was admitted to the central Delhi hospital on March 31 on susupicion that he had contracted coronavirus.

Around 11.30 pm on Saturday, he fell from the third floor of a hospital building under mysterious circumstances and broke both his legs. His corona test reports are yet to come in.

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Doctors treating him said that he was stable.

The police officer said Ali was not connected to the Tablighi Jamaat.

A number of people who have been quarantined over fears of coronavirus have committed suicide across states.

Earlier a patient who was quarantined at the Safdarjung Hospital upon arrival in India committed suicide by jumping off the building.

In Amritsar, an elderly couple allegedly committed suicide on Friday over fear of getting infected by coronavirus.

A few days back in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district hospital a suspected coronavirus patient allegedly committed suicide in the quarantine ward however, his test results that came later said he didn’t have coronavirus.


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