Many Lucknow Areas Shut Down, UP Health Minister In Self-Quarantine After Kanika Kapoor Tests Positive For COVID-19

Lucknow: VIPS, including UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, self-quarantined themselves and many parts of Lucknow were shut down on Friday, following news of Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor testing positive for COVID-19.

Even while netizens are demanding her arrest for not going in for self-quarantine after returning from London, all the areas of Lucknow she visited were shut down, reports IANS.

The “Baby Doll” singer had visited people at home, consulted a doctor, played Holi and attended a party while she was in Lucknow.  

The Lucknow administration has shut down a large part of the trans-Gomti area in the Uttar Pradesh capital where she was staying. All shops and commercial establishments except medicine shops, gas agencies, hospitals and pharmacists in the area including Mahanagar, Khurram Nagar, Tedhi Pulia, Abrar Nagar and along the Kukrail nullah, Rahim Nagar and Kapoorthala have been ordered to be closed. The list also includes restaurants.

A number of residents living in the building where Kanika Kapoor was staying have started leaving their apartments, reports IANS.

The singer herself has been shifted to the isolation ward in the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.

UP health minister Jai Pratap Singh had attended the party in which the singer was present. He said that he himself had informed the medical officials about his presence at the party.

“On the basis of information given by the singer, the officials are contacting and checking all those people whom she interacted with. All of them will have to follow the defined protocols,” said the minister.