All my contacts are negative, says Kanika Kapoor

Yusra Husain | TNN | Updated: Apr 27, 2020, 08:59 IST

Kanika Kapoor with her family at their Lucknow house on Sunday.

LUCKNOW: After spending 21 days in quarantine at her home in the city, singer Kanika Kapoor on Sunday took to social media to narrate to her fans ‘facts’ about her travelling history and Covid-19 experience. Kapoor (41) said that she was at home spending time with her family and that she chose to remain silent all this while knowing full well of ‘misconceptions’ being floated around her. She said it was time to talk and let truth prevail.
Her instagram post that had received over 60,000 likes and 800 comments by Sunday evening clarified that every person she had come in contact with in UK, Mumbai and Lucknow had shown no Covid-19 symptoms and they had all been tested negative.
She ended the note saying that “negativity thrown at a person does not change the reality.”
As per the statement, Kanika traveled from UK to Mumbai on March 10 and was duly screened at the international airport. She claimed that since there was no advisory till then (UK travel advisory was released on March 18) that asked for quarantine, she did not do so. “I also didn’t feel ill and reached Lucknow on March 11,” she writes.
“There was no screening setup for domestic flights,” reads the statement with clarification that she had hosted no party and had only attended a friend’s lunch and dinner as she was healthy.
Kanika says that when she started getting symptoms on March 17 and 18, she sought Covid-19 testing, following which her test came positive on March 20 and she “chose to go to hospital.” She was discharged after three negative tests.
Not just Lucknow but the entire Bollywood had gone into a panic mode when Kanika tested positive leading to a number of stories floating around her. Admitting that there were several versions of these stories, Kanika said that a number of them were fuelled by her silence even though she was not wrong.
Calling these misunderstandings and wrong exchanges of information, Kanika thanked doctors, nurses for the treatment and her friends, family and supporters for giving her time to talk when ready while letting truth to prevail in the meantime.