When the Agra health officers reached the COVID-19 positive woman's house, the 8 family members resisted them by shutting the door and did not cooperate.

The tweet by Agra district Magistrate Prabhu N Singh, Facebook post by Vidhu Pal Singh and an article by Times of India confirms the claim.

The tweet by Agra district Magistrate Prabhu N Singh, Facebook post by Vidhu Pal Singh and an article by Times of India confirms the claim.A Facebook post made on 14 March 2020 said that 8 family members of a Bengaluru techie's wife who tested positive for COVID-19 closed their doors at the Agra health officials and did not cooperate. They even lied to the police that she had left to Bengaluru when she was hiding in the house.

Times of India reported on 15 March 2020 that a health official said that they faced resistance when they visited her house where she was found staying with her eight family members and were forced to isolation ward with the help of the police.

Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh has tweeted that the woman who had been tested positive for COVID-19 in Agra and an FIR had been registered against her father for not cooperating and misleading the health officials.

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