Minor girl writes to authorities to help find deceased mother’s phone

The girl wants to trace the phone of her mother who died due to COVID as it has her memories

The story of a young girl in Kodagu, who lost her mother to COVID-19 recently, has gone viral on social media as she waits for her mother’s missing mobile phone to recollect memories. Along with her mother and her father, Hrithiksha, of Gummanakolli village near Kushalnagar, had also tested positive for COVID-19 recently. She and her father, Naveen Kumar T.R., a daily wage worker, were home isolated but her mother had to be shifted to the ICU ward at the district COVID-19 hospital, Madikeri, for treatment. However, Hrithiksha’s mother succumbed to the infection on May 16.