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Indian expat dies at RAK airport, found to be COVID positive

Our Correspondent
Dubai

A Keralite worker who arrived at the Ras Al Khaimah airport for repatriation collapsed and died on June 30; he was later found to be COVID positive.

Pavithran Manchakkal, 50, was on his way to board a Spice Jet repatriation flight to Kozhikode when he died at the airport. He was going home on the very day his son had bagged an A+ in all subjects in the SSLC examination, the results of which were announced earlier in the day. Pavithran had hoped to surprise his son and also gift him a mobile phone.

Pavithran, who was a goldsmith working with a jewellery shop in Ajman, was without a job for the past three months because of the pandemic-induced closure of the shop. Chethana, an organisation working for the welfare of expatriate workers, had helped him procure a flight ticket. He took a bus from Ajman to the RAK airport. He was shifted to the Khalifa hospital when he collapsed at the airport.

He is survived by his wife and three children.

The Gulf Indians

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