A 38-year-old woman, who was stuck in Chandigarh for over three months because of the lockdown, was allegedly stopped by her husband to enter home without COVID-19 negative test report when she returned to their house in Bengaluru recently.

The woman, who was excited about meeting her husband and 10-year-old son, was asked by the husband to quarantine herself elsewhere for 14 days and even get a COVID-19 negative test certificate before she could return to the house.

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When the woman could not convince her husband, she reached out to Parihar Vanitha Sahayavani (womens helpline) in the midnight a week ago. The cell then counseled the husband about his misconceptions about virus and convinced him to allow his wife to enter the house.

With increasing fears and stigma over coronavirus infection, this is not the first time such an incident has taken place. Last month, a woman in Andhra Pradesh stopped her husband from entering the house and asked him to take a COVID-19 test first.