News reports suggest that famous singer Lata Mangeshkar has died on ventilator support due to COVID-19. She was admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital. She was admitted in the first week of January 2022. She was then tested positive for COVID-19 on January 11th, 2022.
On Saturday, news agency ANI reported that veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was taken to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital earlier this month after testing positive for COVID-19, is still in the ICU and on a ventilator. The 92-year-old singer was also being treated for pneumonia. In late January, she was free of COVID-19 and pneumonia. The singer is “now in the ICU and has once again been put on ventilator support, due to her deteriorated condition, for which she will stay under monitoring,” according to Dr Pratit Samdani of Breach Candy Hospital, who has been treating her.
“She was undergoing aggressive therapy,” said Dr. Pratit Samdani.
We keep a close eye on her at all times. She is still in the intensive care unit and is being closely monitored. Breach Candy Hospital is where she is receiving treatment.”
Lata Mangeshkar’s musical masterpieces are well-known. She has sung in a variety of regional languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and others. She has received the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, and numerous National and Filmfare Awards. Lata Mangeshkar’s most recent full-length record was Veer-Zaara, a Bollywood film released in 2004.
After her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, died in 1942, Lata Mangeshkar, also known as the ‘Nightingale of India,’ began singing to support her family. He was a classical singer as well as a stage performer. Lata Mangeshkar’s first significant break in Bollywood came with the song Dil Mera Toda from the 1948 film Majboor. Her first significant hit was the song Aayega Aanewaala from the movie Mahal (1949).
