This ethnic Indian infectious disease specialist whose wife worked at a Covid-19 lab in New Jersey, received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the US, still got infected and died after returning to India to visit relative. He probably believed that the Indian pandemic is over.Renowned infectious diseases expert Dr Rajendra Kapila, 81, dies of Covid-19
Dr Kapila worked extensively on HIV-AIDS, trained many people in the field and practised at Rutgers University for 50 years.
By Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2021 02:21 PM IST
Ghaziabad: Renowned infectious disease specialist and Rutgers University professor Dr Rajendra Kapila passed away in Delhi on April 28 after having tested positive for Covid-19 on April 8. He was 81.
Dr Kapila worked extensively on HIV-AIDS, trained many people in the field and practised at the Rutgers University for 50 years.
He had returned to India with wife Dr Deepti Saxena-Kapila in the last week of March and stayed in Ghaziabad. He was supposed to fly back to US by second week of April but was admitted to Delhi’s Shanti Mukund Hospital where he died.
“For the last one year I have been working at a Covid-19 lab in New Jersey and had ensured a safe environment at home,” said Dr Deepti, who specialises in microbiology. “It is ironic that we came to India for two weeks and he contracted it here.”
She said Dr Kapila had got both doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the US.
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