Shailendra Kumar Sinha

The death of two people infected with coronavirus at the hospital ward where he has been staying was the last straw. COVID-19 patient Shailendra Sinha, who has been waiting for a doctor to see him for 10 days at a hospital in Bihar's Darbhanga, says he had no choice left but to sit on a dharna at the door of the ward.

A West Bengal government official on poll duty died here today due to heat wave, taking the toll to three in the state with the mercury soaring to 41.2 degree Celsius, even as the Met department predicted thunder squalls in the next two days.

The death of two people infected with coronavirus at the hospital ward where he has been staying was the last straw. COVID-19 patient Shailendra Sinha, who has been waiting for a doctor to see him for 10 days at a hospital in Bihar's Darbhanga, says he had no choice left but to sit on a dharna at the door of the ward.

A West Bengal government official on poll duty died here today due to heat wave, taking the toll to three in the state with the mercury soaring to 41.2 degree Celsius, even as the Met department predicted thunder squalls in the next two days.