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Odisha groom dies of Covid-19 on day of his marriage

ByDebabrata Mohanty
May 28, 2021 12:34 PM IST

A young man in the western Odisha district of Bargarh succumbed to Covid-19 the day he was supposed to get married, officials said

A young man in the western Odisha district of Bargarh succumbed to Covid-19 the day he was supposed to get married, officials said.

Gurugram, India - May 27, 2021: The Covid-19 care facility at Tau Devi Lal Stadium being cleaned by a worker in PPE, in Gurugram , India, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. (Photo by Vipin Kumar / Hindustan Times) (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)
Gurugram, India - May 27, 2021: The Covid-19 care facility at Tau Devi Lal Stadium being cleaned by a worker in PPE, in Gurugram , India, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. (Photo by Vipin Kumar / Hindustan Times) (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)

“He was an amiable person. He was supposed to get married on May 25 but Covid took him away from us,” said a relative of the deceased groom.

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Jibardhan Bhoi, in his twenties, was supposed to get married on May 25. Hailing from Attabira in Bargarh district, Bhoi worked in a child care institution in Sambalpur district as a manager.

However, on May 17, a day before he was supposed to come home for marriage, he tested positive for Covid-19 and had to be admitted to a Covid hospital in Sambalpur town. He succumbed to the infection on May 25, the day of his marriage.

A pall of gloom descended over the small town of Attabira after Bhoi’s death.

Early this month, a 26-year-old man in Kendrapara died of Covid-19 just 5 days after he got married. Sanjay Kumar Nayak, a native of Durgadevipada village in coastal Kendrapara district, got married on May 10 after returning from Bengaluru. However, he developed flu-like symptoms and tested positive for Covid-19 on May 13.

Initially, he was in home isolation but after his condition worsened, he was admitted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar where he succumbed to the infection on May 15.

In May this year, at least 550 people in Odisha died of Covid-19, the highest since Covid-19 infections were reported in the state last year.

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