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PUNE: Ophthalmologist Subir Sudhir Roy (68) was found dead in his Prabhat Road flat on Saturday morning while his sister, Gitika (65), who was taken by the police to Sassoon General Hospital in a state of unconsciousness, died the same afternoon.
Sub-inspector Sandip Jadhav from the Deccan Gymkhana police, citing preliminary information by relatives, told TOI, “Roy, who ran clinics in Vishrantwadi and Yerawada, was staying with Gitika and his brother, Sanjay, (60). They were unmarried. The doctor had been taking care of his siblings who were suffering from a mental ailment.”
Tests conducted after his body was removed to the hospital and on Gitika who was admitted for treatment, revealed that the two were Covid-19 positive. We are verifying if Roy himself had any prior knowledge about the Covid-19 infection, and are also awaiting the RT-PCR test result for Sanjay. During our search, we did not find any Covid test report in the flat. For now, a case of accidental death has been registered,” he said.