At five in the evening on Saturday, Indian track and field bid a final adieu to its first post-independence superstar. Padma Shri Milkha Singh succumbed to COVID — after battling it for a month and five days after losing his wife Nirmal Kaur — in Chandigarh on Friday. They had been married for 59 years and the family, led by …
Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh is "clinically stable with decreasing oxygen requirement" as he fights COVID pneumonia, the hospital where he is being treated said on Tuesday. "Mr Milkha Singh is clinically stable with decreasing oxygen requirement," the hospital update read. pic.twitter.com/XDaPHdiHNq — Jeev Milkha Singh May 20, 2021 Milkha is suspected to have contracted the infection from house helps …
