New Delhi, March 12, 2020: Government officials in New Delhi on March 12 said a 76-year-old man who died in Karnataka’s Kalburgi district two days ago had been infected by the novel coronavirus.
The unnamed man had returned from Saudi Arabia on February 29 and had been screened on arrival at Hyderabad airport. He had shown no symptoms at that time.
On March 5 he went to a private hospital in Kalburgi and was admitted the following day with asthma and hypertension. Hospital staff tested him for novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.
Three days later he was shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad. His family checked him out of hospital the same day and was taking him home when he died at around 10:30 pm.
More than 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection have been confirmed by the federal Health Ministry so far, which on March 11 shut the country’s borders to all existing visas – except diplomatic, official, UN/International organizations, employment and project visas — until April 15.
The COVID-19 outbreak originated in a food market in China’s Wuhan district in December last year and has, so far, killed more than 4,500 people. According to WHO, around 118,000 positive cases have been reported globally in 114 countries and more than 90 percent of cases are in just four countries.
Source: ndtv.com