Filmmaker Kunal Kohli revealed that his maternal aunt has passed away in Chicago after an eight week long battle with coronavirus. The filmmaker said it was heartbreaking for the families to not be together in these testing times due to the pandemic. Kunal posted about this on Twitter on Saturday.

The director recalled how during the treatment, his cousin sister would go to the hospital, sit in her car "and pray for her mother."

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed at least 340,000 people worldwide and infected about 5.3 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.