Thai woman in Lucknow dies of Covid, police live-stream funeral for family amid SP-BJP slugfest

A Thai woman in Lucknow died of Covid and the death triggered a controversy, with an SP leader accusing a BJP MP's son of bringing her to India.

Days after she arrived in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, a 41-year-old woman from Thailand succumbed to Covid-19. The woman in Lucknow on a tourist visa was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after developing symptoms of the disease. FIR @Uppolice ? CBI ? ? , (@dhrubathakur) pic.twitter.com/XpMAOmuWIs — I.P. Singh (@IPSinghSp) May 9, 2021 — Sanjay Seth (@MpSanjayseth) May 9, 2021 She was undergoing treatment in the hospital's Covid ward, where she died on May 3.