Ahmedabad: Just after FB chat, corona ended his life

Rajkot: Admitted at an Ahmedabad hospital for more than a fortnight, 40-year-old Deepak Viradiya was badly missing his friends from Gondal. On Thursday, Viradiya, who was on BiPAP, went live on Facebook to chat with his friends and talked about meeting them soon. But that was not to be. The chat was the last when they saw their friend. Suffering from post-Covid complications, Viradiya breathed his last on Saturday.
After catching the infection around 17 days back, Viradiya had tested negative for Covid-19 recently and was looking forward to getting discharged, one of his friends told TOI . “During the FB chat Viradiya told us that he wanted to come to Gondal as soon as he got discharged from the hospital. In fact, I had told him that I would come to Ahmedabad on Sunday and take him to Gondal,” Tushar Viradiya, a close friend of Deepak Viradiya, told TOI.
Three years back the Viradiya had shifted to Ahmedabad from the Rajkot district town. Viradiya used to run a restaurant at his native Gondal before he moved to Ahmedabad for better education of his son.
“We were heartbroken by the news of the passing away of our dear friend. We are all in shock. Viradiya would put his heart and soul into helping people in need. He was President of Sardar Patel group. Because of his kind nature, he had a huge friend circle and he remembered friends in his last days,” an inconsolable Tushar said.