TV anchor and media personality Rohit Sardana, who died of complications due to COVID-19 at a Delhi hospital on Friday, had promised to be back at work on May 2, the day votes are to be counted for the recently-held assembly elections in five states.
Sardana, 41, was an executive editor and TV news anchor with the Aaj Tak and is survived by wife Pramila Dixit, two daughters, and parents. He was admitted in Noida’s Metro hospital for treatment of COVID-19 and suffered a heart attack Friday morning.
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A sobbing Aaj Tak anchor, while announcing Sardana’s death said, “When he tested postive for COVID-19, he called me and said ‘you work with me, you also get tested… he said ‘I will be back on May 2… I never knew he would never come back.”
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India is grappling with a devastating, fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 that has spread to all parts of the country and is causing more than 3 lakh daily cases and more than 3000 deaths.
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