Tirupati: A 50-year-old man committed suicide as he feared contracting novel Coronavirus after he suffered a bout of viral fever. The deceased, identified as K Bala Krishna, a native of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, had watched videos about Coronavirus that made him believe that he got infected too, Times of India reported.

The incident happened on Tuesday when Krishna locked up his family in his house and left for his mother’s grave. His wife Lakshmi Devi then alerted their neighbours, who rushed to open the door, but by the time they reached the grave, Krishna had then hanged himself from a tree nearby.