78-year-old suspected Covid-19 patient dies at Agra Medical College

Firozabad: A 78-year-old man, suspected to be infected with Covid-19, died during treatment at SN Medical College in Agra, on Tuesday evening, health officials said.

Following the death, a local health team visited the deceased’s residence late in the evening and tested his family members.

According to the PTI report, Firozabad Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Rambadan Ram said the elderly man was admitted to a private hospital in Agra on May 24 after suffering a hip fracture and head injury.

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On May 25, he experienced difficulties in breathing and was tested for COVID-19 at a private lab. The result was positive. The man was then shifted to the Covid isolation ward at SN Medical College in Agra late on Monday night, where he passed away, the CMO said.

According to Agra Medical College officials, the patient was also suffering from multiple serious health conditions.

SN Medical College Principal Dr Prashant Gupta said, “A suspected Covid patient has died. We cannot say for sure that the death was due to Covid-19.” Meanwhile, a seven-member medical team in Firozabad conducted health checks on the deceased’s family members and sanitised the entire locality, officials said.

CMO Ram confirmed that there are currently no active Covid-19 cases in Firozabad.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that amid a spike in Covid cases in some parts of the country, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr Rajiv Behl said the severity of infections is mild and there was no cause for worry. Speaking about new Covid variants being traced, he said genome sequencing of samples in the west and south have shown that the new variants are not severe and are Omicron sub-variants. These are LF.7, XFG, JN.1 and NB. 1.8.1.

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