Fact Check: Claims of Delhi doctor’s death due to Covid-19 is false

Team Udayavani, Mar 28, 2020, 2:25 PM IST

A picture of a doctor named Usman Riyaz is going viral on social media. It is being said that the doctor is from Delhi and has died after he was tested positive for coronavirus while saving lives of patients.

Well, It is found that the news is fake and that the picture is of Dr Riyaz Usman, who is a General Practitioner at Aster clinic in UAE and is alive.

Also, no report has been found which said that a doctor in Delhi died due to coronavirus.

However, there are claims that a doctor named Osman Riaz died in Pakistan while screening pilgrims for Coronavirus. Many media houses had published the story.

Osman Riaz lost his life after he was tested positive for coronavirus. It is said that he was screening pilgrims who had returned to Pakistan from Iran.