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Covid claims life of 62-yr-old Ambala woman

| @indiablooms | May 02, 2020, at 05:58 pm

Ambala/UNI: A 62-year-old Ambala woman died of novel coronavirus at the PGI Chandigarh on Saturday, health official confirmed.

Ambala Civil Surgeon Dr Kuldip Singh said that the woman hailing from village Ratangarhhad, had been suffering from chronic kidney and liver ailment and was on dialysis at the PGI for the last three years.

Due to co-morbidity, her immune system failed to fight against the coronavirus and she succumbed to the deadly disease.

All her family members and possible contacts have tested and no one was found infected, the health official informed.

Her family members have agreed to perform the last rites in the PGI Chandigarh.

This is the second case of fatality in Ambala. Earlier an elderly person resident of Timber Market of Ambala Cantt had succumbed at the PGI. 

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