Subham Singh, the Personal Assistant (PA) of Mewalal Chaudhary, who was with him till his last breath, shared his plight before reporters.
The ambulance was used to ferry mafia don Mukhtar Ansari from the Ropar jail to Mohali court in Punjab earlier this month.
The body, which was found outside her house in the Ujhani area in Badaun district on Monday, has been sent for post mortem.
Currently, over 1,800 prisoners are lodged in the jail, the official from Thane Civil Hospital told reporters on Monday.
In a letter sent to the Chief Minister on Monday evening, the Congress leader drew his attention to the fast-deteriorating Covid-19 situation in districts of UP, particularly Lucknow.
In the last 24 hours (since Sunday), 7,487 fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported in Bihar and 41 people including former education minister Mewalal Chaudhary lost their lives.
Anuj Sharma, father of a six-year-old girl, was admitted on April 14 in Fortis Hospital of Jaipur after Covid struck him on April 13. His wife, a senior official with the Railways, and daughter, are also infected, and isolated.
The lockdown will remain in force till April 26 as of now.
The infected police officers and other staff have been placed under home quarantine and the Hayat Nagar police station has been sealed for the next 48 hours for sanitisation and disinfection.
The police had arrested Prashant and two others, including Mohan Soni and Haryana resident Sachin Kumar, on charges of black marketing of Remdesivir vials.
No casualty has been reported so far, Thane Municipal Corporation’s regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.
Called the ‘Jan Anushasan Pakhwada’ (public discipline fortnight), only shops and offices providing essential services will open during the 15-day period, the release issued by Home Secretary Abhay Kumar said.
On Sunday, of the total number of 220 Kumbh returnees tested at the station, 15 were found infected.
Mumbai city reported 8,468 fresh cases and 53 deaths, taking the tally of the infections to 5,79,486 and the toll to 12,354.
The 73-year-old Leader of Opposition and his wife got themselves admitted to the hospital as a precautionary measure, a party leader said.
The holy city has also witnessed a surge in COVID-19 cases like other major urban centres of Uttar Pradesh.
Of the new fatalities linked to the virus, 36 were reported from state capital Lucknow, followed by 15 from Kanpur, eight from Varanasi, four each from Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar and Jaunpur among other districts.
The MMU also asked the people to hold special prayers in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan seeking refuge from the Almighty against the deadly outbreak.
Gujarat has vaccinated over 10 million people or one crore people so far.
Sugarcane Development Minister Suresh Rana and Additional Chief Secretary of the Information Department, Navneet Sehgal, have also tested positive for Covid-19. Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash has also been infected with the virus.
Gujarat is one of the states from where a high number of COVID-19 cases are being reported during the second wave of the pandemic.
For the last few days, Kumaraswamy had been campaigning for the party candidate in Basavakalyan, which is going to bypoll today.
The incident took place on Wednesday, but came to light on Thursday after the hospital staff informed the family members about the 52-year-old man’s death.
The infant was born with the infection on April 1, as her mother had also contracted the disease, a statement issued by Diamond Hospital said.
Yashwant Singh, 56, was reported positive for coronavirus on April 2, following which he was admitted to a private hospital in Lucknow where he died on Thursday, Manish Singh, Divisional Forest Officer, Bahraich, said.