Kolkata: Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been shifted to intensive care in a private hospital where he is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 after his health condition worsened, a senior doctor at the facility said.

Soumitra ChatterjeeThe 85-year-old actor was at an "acute confusional stage" following which the neurologist advised him to be shifted to the ITU, he said.

"Mr Chatterjee has been shifted to the ITU after he has been experiencing restlessness and reached an acute confusional stage. We have shifted him to the ITU for close monitoring. He is having several co-morbidities, that's why we need to be more careful," the doctor said.