Suspected Covid-19 patient dies in UP's Hathras

AGRA: A 32-year-old man, who was admitted at Hathras district hospital’s isolation ward on Sunday for suspected Covid-19, died on Monday morning. His sample was sent for testing at Aligarh’s Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and the report is still awaited.
Confirming this, Hathras DM Praveen Kumar Laxkar said the patient, who hailed from distict’s Nayabans, was admitted to the district hospital yesterday after his condition started deteriorating and this morning he breathed his last at 11am.
He told TOI that the patient was admitted in the isolation ward as he had a history of cerebral meningitis, for which he was being treated till recently at Agra’s Paras Hospital where several patients had been found positive for coronavirus. The said hospital was sealed on April 6 by the administration.
The DM said it is still not certain if the deceased was infected with coronavirus but as a precautionary measure his body was sanitised before being put it into a mortuary. Also, samples of two persons, who came along with him were taken for testing.
Chief medical officer, Dr Brijesh Rathore said that the deceased was admitted at Paras hospital on March 26 and had returned to Hathras on April 4 after getting treatment for brain infection. As his name was mentioned in the list of people who were being traced, he was admitted to the Covid ward.