India's first coronavirus death: Health ministry provides case details, highlights co-morbidities
New Delhi: As the health ministry confirmed the first casualty to coronavirus in India, it recently also provided the case details of the patient, highlighting his co-morbidities
Death of a 76-year-old male from Karnataka is confirmed to be caused due to co-morbidity and has also tested positive for COVID-19. The details of the case are as follows:
He visited Saudi Arabia from 29th January 2020 to 29th February 2020.
He was a known case of Hypertension and Asthma. He reached back to Hyderabad on 29th February and went to Kalaburgi.
While he was asymptomatic on his return, he developed symptoms of fever and cough on 06th March 2020. One private doctor visited him at his home and treated him there.
On 9th March 2020, the symptoms got aggravated and he was shifted to a private hospital in Kalaburgi. In this private hospital he was provisionally diagnosed as "mid zone Viral Pneumonia" and "suspected COVID-19".
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