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BREAKINGNEWS: Kolkata registers first Covid-19 death

| @indiablooms | Mar 23, 2020, at 04:07 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The first Covid-19 death of West Bengal was reported on Monday with a patient in Kolkata's AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake passing away, taking India's total death toll from coronavirus to eight.

Official sources said the 57-year-old Covid-19 positive patient, who was undergoing treatment under ventilation support at AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake, died on Monday, making it the first Corona death in Kolkata as well as West Bengal.

He was admitted in hospital on March 16. 

His infection was detected later after testing.

He was a resident of DumDum, said reports.

 

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