Actor Banita Sandhu, who is in Kolkata to shoot for a movie, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday and was admitted to a private hospital after she refused to be treated in a government facility, health department sources said.
Sandhu, who was shooting for Kavita & Teresa, reached the city on December 20 and she travelled in the same flight with the youth who tested positive for the mutant coronavirus strain on his return from the United Kingdom.
Latest report claims that while steps were being taken to ascertain whether Banita had contracted the new strain of the virus, she refused to get admitted in a government hospital as it lacked infrastructure. Eventually, the British actress was admitted to a private hospital. They have taken samples to check whether she has been infected with the mutant coronavirus strain. The report also mentions that an official said that the ‘October’ actress refused to come out of the ambulance she was taken in. The official added, ‘We had to inform the state secretariat and the health department as she was unwilling to come out of the ambulance and at one point of time, she wanted to leave. The British High Commission was informed as we cannot let her go like this which is against the protocol. We had to inform the police also. They (police personnel) came and surrounded the ambulance so that she cannot leave.’ For the unversed, ‘Banita made her acting debut with the movie ‘October’ opposite Varun Dhwan. She later made Tamil debut with ‘Adithya Varma’, which is the Tamil remake of ‘Arjun Reddy’. Actor Dhruv Vikram was the male lead in the same, and the movie was loved by the audience.
