COVID-19: Death toll in India rises to 2
With one more person returning from Italy testing positive for COVID-19 at the Indian Army’s quarantine facility in Manesar, the number of cases in India reach 81. And death toll rises to 2. The first death reported in Karnataka’s Kalaburgi and second where 69 year old women dies in Delhi. The Health Ministry confirmed the number of cases at 81 around 5 p.m. at a press conference, even as reports of the worldwide death due to the virus crossed 5,000.
In the backdrop of coronavirus threat, the Indian Army has postponed its recruitment rallies for a month. Schools across Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Delhi, parts of Haryana have been shut.Two persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur, taking the total number of cases in Maharashtra to 16, a health official said.
Meanwhile 10 people who recently returned from coronavirus-hit nations have gone missing in Ludhiana city of Punjab, officials said. The medical staff has been asked to remain on an alert mode. The state government has also instructed closing of schools and colleges till March 31.
In Karnataka which saw the first death due to COVID-19, eight family members of a septuagenarian, who is the first fatality of COVID-19 in India, were quarantined in a hospital in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi city, a top official said on Friday.Seven neighbours of the family too have been kept in isolation. “The family of the 76-year-old man, who died of COVID-19 on March 10, has been quarantined in an isolation ward at the ESI Hospital here.
