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Kolkata: Ashim Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's younger brother, died of COVID-19 on Saturday morning (May 15) at the age of 62.
Dr Alok Roy, chairman of the city's Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata, said that Banerjee was undergoing treatment at the hospital for the past one month.
A senior doctor at the hospital said that Banerjee died around 9:20 AM.
"He was detected with COVID-19 last month and was undergoing treatment for almost a month now. He had certain comorbidities such as hypertension," the doctor said.
As per the sources, he stayed in the same house where the CM lives at 30B, Harish Chatterjee Street.
Popularly known as Kali Banerjee, his cremation was attended by members of the Banerjee family.
Leaders close to them said that the entire Banerjee family was devastated by his death. "He had been improving and deteriorating. But the battle ended on Saturday after a month," said a leader.
Several senior TMC ministers conveyed their condolences. Senior Congress leaders, including Adhir Chowdhury, also expressed their condolences.
According to the reports, his last rites will be performed at Nimtala cremation ground today following COVID protocols.
Meanwhile, 11,14,313 people are affected in West Bengal, 9,69,228 out of 11,14,313 have recovered. 13,137 patients have died and 1,31,948 patients are still in hospital and recovering.
West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay announced a COVID-19 lockdown in the state for 15 days between May 16 and May 30. Bandyopadhyay said, "We are hopeful that with this restriction, we will be able to contain the virus to some extent. This will also reduce the burden on health care institutes, nursing homes, hospitals. This will help us to reduce the daily corona cases and also to manage the Oxygen supply chain."