NOIDA: Television journalist Rohit Sardana died here of cardiac arrest on Friday, days after he tested positive for Covid-19, according to his channel Aaj Tak. He was 41.
Sardana, who was an executive editor and TV news anchor with Aaj Tak of the India Today Group, is survived by his wife, two daughters and parents.
He was admitted to a private hospital here after he tested positive for coronavirus. His last rites will take place in his hometown of Kurukshetra in Haryana, according to his colleagues. We are all shocked by the death of our colleague and friend, Rohit Sardana. This incomparable loss cannot be expressed in words. We express our condolences to his family in this hour of grief, Aaj Tak tweeted in Hindi.
Coronavirus: Journalist Rohit Sardana dies of heart attack days after testing positive
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other political leaders and journalists offered condolences.
Television journalist Rohit Sardana died of heart attack on Friday, days after testing positive for coronavirus. He was 41.
On April 24, Sardana had tweeted saying that he developed symptoms and ran a fever a week ago. His RT-PCR test had come negative, but a CT scan had confirmed the infection, Sardana had tweeted, adding that he was better. However, a heart attack on Friday proved to be fatal, Aaj Tak, the news channel he worked for, reported.