COVID-19: India Reports Third Death As 64-Year-Old Coronavirus Patient Passes Away At Mumbai’s Kasturba Hospital

The Union Health Ministry On Tuesday Reported 11 New Cases Of The Novel Coronavirus Taking The Total Number Of Infections To 125, Up From 114 A Day Earlier, With The Highest Numbers In Maharashtra And Kerala.

New Delhi:

India reported its third confirmed death due to novel coronavirus outbreak as a COVID-19 patient passed away at Mumbai’s Kasturba hospital. According to news agency ANI, the patient was 64-year-old. Earlier, India had reported two deaths due to the coronavirus – one in Delhi and another in Karnataka. While a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who returned from Saudi Arabia died on Tuesday last, a 68-year-old woman in Delhi who had tested positive for coronavirus passed away at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital on Friday night. So far, 13 patients have successfully recovered as the disease spread to 15 states and Union territories in India.

The Union health ministry on Tuesday reported 11 new cases of the novel coronavirus taking the total number of infections to 125, up from 114 a day earlier, with the highest numbers in Maharashtra and Kerala. The cases include 22 foreign nationals and two persons who died in Delhi and Karnataka.

Delhi has so far reported seven positive cases while Uttar Pradesh has recorded 13 cases including one foreigner. Karnataka has 8 coronavirus patients while Maharashtra 39 including 3 foreigners. Ladakh has reported four cases while Jammu and Kashmir three. Telangana has reported four cases. Rajasthan has also reported four cases including that of two foreigners. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab have reported one case each. Odhisha reported its first case on Monday. In Haryana, all the fourteen infected with the virus are foreigners while Uttarakhand has reported one case. Kerala has recorded 24 cases including two foreign nationals. The number also includes three patients who were discharged last month after they recovered from the contagious infection with flu-like symptoms.

Meanwhile, Gautam Budh Nagar CMO Anurag Bhargav confirmed that two people have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Noida. Bhargav said one person in Sector 78 and another in Sector 100 with travel history to France tested positive and have been admitted to the designated isolation hospital.