Disha Patani's team has issued a statement saying that reports claiming that the actor's father has tested positive for coronavirus are untrue.
The statement also said that Jagdish Singh Patani is absolutely "fine" and urged people not to spread misinformation.
On Thursday, 6 August, there was buzz that Disha's father Jagdish Singh Patani, along with two more officers of the vigilance unit of the Uttar Pradesh power department, have tested positive for COVID-19. Additional CMO Ashok Kumar was quoted as saying that the three officers who had come from Lucknow tested positive on Wednesday, 5 August. He added that they were investigating a transformer scam.
Disha Patani's father is a deputy SP in the vigilance unit of the state power department. The zonal chief engineer's office has also been closed for the next 48 hours, the ACMO added. In the past 24 hours, Uttar Pradesh has reported more than four thousand COVID-19 cases.
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