Colleague of Bengal's first COVID 19 victim hospitalized with breathing difficulties, swab sample sent for test
Kolkata/IBNS: A colleague of the Kolkata man, who died on Monday from coronavirus infection, has been admitted to N.R.S Medical College and Hospital in the city after he had complained of massive breathing trouble, reports said on Tuesday afternoon.
According to reports, swab sample of the man, who used to sit beside city's first Covid-19 victim at the same office at Fairle Place area, has been sent to NICED for Covid-19.
"We are expecting his test result tonight from NICED following which we will take further decision," a state health official said.
On Monday at 3:35 pm, a 57-year-old man from Kolkata's Dum Dum area, who had earlier tested positive for Covid-19, died at Salt Lake AMRI hospital.
Earlier on Monday morning, West Bengal reported a rise in the Covid-19 count as two more Kolkatans, who recently returned from London and Egypt, tested positive for novel coronavirus.
"For confirmation, we had again sent the latest two Covid-19 infected persons' swab samples to NICED and they have been found positive for Covid-19 after the second test too," a senior health official said.
Currently, all eight Covid-19 positive patients are undergoing treatments in the isolation ward of Kolkata's Beliaghata ID hospital.
Covid-19 Heads-Up:
To stop the spread of the pandemic, India has placed its major cities and about 75 districts under a stringent lockdown amid cases of coronavirus emerging and claiming lives.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose appeal saw a successful "Janata Curfew" (people's lockdown) on Sunday, has urged people to take the lockdown seriously after many were found flouting the rules.
According to worldometers.info, India has till Tuesday morning 511 positive cases with 10 lives lost to the virus (Indian official toll is 9 so far).
There are 381,760 coronavirus cases worldwide with 16,558 people succumbing to the virus, according to worldometers.info. A total of 102,429. people have recovered.
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