Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Kunal Kohli lost his maternal aunt to COVID-19.
The grieving filmmaker is heartbroken as he and his other family members won’t be able to attend the last rites of the deceased family member in Chicago.
Kunal took to Twitter to share this unfortunate news.
“Lost my Masi to Covid after an 8 week struggle. In Chicago. We’re a large family that’s really close. We can’t be together at this time. This is as painful as the loss. Seeing my mom, masi’s & mama’s not being able to be together at this time is really hard,” he tweeted.
Describing the hardships which COVID-19 patients and their family members has to go through, Kunal wrote, “Her daughter (my cousin) would go to the hospital, sit in her car in the car park and pray for her mother. As she wasn’t allowed inside the hospital. Said she felt close to her as she couldn’t see her. This is how harsh Covid is. This isn’t the way to go.”
Kunal Kohli is an Indian film director, producer and writer known for films such as ‘Hum Tum’ and ‘Fanaa’. He also owns the production house Kunal Kohli Productions.
According to the latest figures by the Johns Hopkins University, US accounts for the world’s highest number of Corona cases and deaths at 1,600,782 and 95,972, respectively.
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