‘First time in life he complained of weakness, body ache’, says wife

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 20

Milkha Singh, an athletic legend whose performance had earned him the title of Flying Sikh, has tested positive for Covid-19.

Though his condition is stated to be stable, he is learnt to be having 101 fever since Wednesday night. He is currently under home isolation, informed his wife Nirmal Milkha Singh.

Nirmal Kaur said that Milkha was checked by PGIMER doctors and they have given requisite medicines.

About her husband contracting the infection, she said, “A cook, who had been with the family for the last 50 years, reported high fever a few days ago.”    

 “He used to mostly stay here, but occasionally he used to go to his Kishangarh village here. A few days ago, he told our driver to check his temperature and he found him running a high fever.

“He had concealed from us that he had been running a fever for the past few days. He was sent home and tested positive,” she said.

She said a couple of days before Milkha’s COVID test was done, he had told her about feeling slight weakness.

“This was the first time in my life that he had complained of weakness and body ache,” she said.

Recently, the 91-year-old legend had called upon people to stay indoors during the lockdown period to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Last month, his daughter Mona Milkha Singh, who is a doctor at the Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, had received applaud  for attending to emergency patients of coronavirus. His son, Jeev Milkha Singh, a four-time European Tour champion, had requested people to pay request to all frontline workers. Milkha had also donated Rs 2 lakh to UT Administrator for fighting the pandemic.