Dr Aseem Gupta ‑ an anaesthetist in the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital that has been declared a COVID-19 hospital – succumbed to Covid-19 on the morning of June 28, 2020.
The 56-year-old doctor was being treated at Max hospital in Saket for past two weeks.
His condition deteriorated late on Saturday (June 27, 2020) and he died few hours later, NDTV quote officials as saying.
Dr Gupta is survived by his wife and two sons. His wife had also got infected with COVID-19 but she recovered a few days ago. One of his son is pursuing graduation in Engineering, while the other is a studying medicine.