Chennai: A woman who arrived through Vande Bharat Mission and put on quarantine allegedly hung herself in a hotel at St Thomas Mount in the city. This is the second such incident in Chennai.
The woman, identified as Manonmani (47) had come from London where her daughter lives. She had to finish her 14-day quarantine in the city before heading to her hometown in Coimbatore.
She had opted for a paid quarantine in a hotel in St Thomas Mount. After finishing seven days of quarantine and testing negative for the infection, she requested officials to allow her to go to Coimbatore as she was afraid of staying alone.
She had told her daughter that she was stressed out due to the quarantine period and was not comfortable staying alone. However, she was adviced to stay back and finish the 14-day quarantine period.
On 27 July, when the daughter could not reach her over phone, she requested the hotel staff to check on her. The staff opened the room and found her hanging in the room. St Thomas Mount police have registered a case and are inquiring the reason for the suicide.
It may be noted that in July, a man who arrived in the city from Singapore and quarantined in a star hotel in Teynampet was found dead by the hotel staff.
Suntharavel Rajendran (41) of Cuddalore was found dead in the bathroom of his room. The staff checked on him after his wife could not reach him over the phone.Autopsy showed he died of heart attack.
As many as 68,306 NRIs have returned to Tamilnadu through the Vande Bharat Mission since May, out of which, 898 have tested positive.