Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor | Photo Credit: PTI

New Delhi: Singer Kanika Kapoor who was tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 disease after returning from London recently is not cooperating with authorities in the isolation ward in Lucknow, Times Now has learnt.

The 41-year-old singer is currently under treatment at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Uttar Pradesh's capital city.

"Kanika is not cooperating with us. In spite of giving her the single isolated best room in the hospital she is throwing tantrums - we have arranged for extra guard as there are chances that she could run away and perhaps infect more people which is not advisable," PGI Director RK Dhiman told Times Now.

In a statement, SGPGI earlier said she has been provided with best of facilities possible including gluten-free diet and separate air-conditioned room.

"Kanika Kapoor has been provided the best that is possible in a hospital. She must co-operate as a patient and not throw tantrums of a star. She is being provided Gluten-Free Diet from the Hospital Kitchen. She has to co-operate with us to help herself. The facility provided to her is an isolated room with a toilet, patient-bed, and a television. The ventilation of her room is air-conditioned with a separate Air Handling Unit (AHU) for the COVID 19 unit. Utmost care is being taken but she must first start behaving as a patient and not a star" SGPGI said.

It is to be noted that BJP MP Dushyant Singh went into self-isolation after attending a party in Lucknow where the Bollywood singer was also present before she tested positive. His mother Vasundhara Raje also did the same. Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, who also attended the party, tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday, the King George Medical University here said.

The minister had gone into self-isolation after undergoing the testing here on Friday, soon after Kapoor announced that she had tested positive for coronavirus.

Kapoor became the first celebrity in India to be detected with the disease. She landed after a trip to the United Kingdom and was admitted to a city hospital after showing symptoms of the respiratory illness. Nearly 300 people attended these parties, her father Rajiv Kapoor had said on Friday.