Patient asks for home quarantine, commits suicide at home

Mysuru: Hours after a Covid positive patient sought home isolation and returned home from the designated Covid hospital here, he ended his life by hanging at his residence in west Mysuru on Friday.
The 56-year-old employee of a factory where some 100 workers tested positive, was found hanging at his house in Gokulam early on Friday. Reasons for his extreme step are not known but it is believed that the man had slipped into depression after he tested positive and was shifted to hospital.
He contracted the infection on July 19 and was shifted to the hospital. He returned home on Thursday after seeking home isolation. Upon his return, he locked himself in the room as per the protocol. However, when his wife came to give him breakfast the next morning, he was found hanging, said officials attached to VV Puram police station.
DCP AN Prakashgowda said he may have taken the drastic step late in the night.
The body was disposed of as per Covid protocol by health and civic authorities.