NOIDA : No family member of a 60-year-old man who died of coronavirus on Monday in Greater Noida could be present at his funeral, while his wife, also a COVID-19 patient, watched the last rites over a video call from hospital.
Multiple sources said the couple's daughter was stuck in Gujarat, while some relatives in Varanasi expressed inability to travel to Gautam Buddh Nagar, near Delhi, in western Uttar Pradesh for the rites.
Also nobody from the man's neighbourhood in Noida Sector 19 came forward to shoulder the responsibility, they said. "There was also no support from the district administration or the district health department after which the private hospital where the man was admitted stepped forward and the cremation was held at