64 year old patient who had travelled to Dubai was tested positive last week died this morning after complications.His son and wife both tested positive and both are currently undergoing treatment. This is the third death in the country linked to coronavirus or COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation last week.
The woman was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai, said officials.
The death in Maharashtra comes as number of COVID-19 cases rose to 125 in India. Last week two people – a 68-year-old woman in Delhi and a 76-year-old woman in Karnataka – died. Both the deaths were linked to COVID-19, which originated in China’s Wuhan city at a meat market in December.
Amid widespread scare, the centre on Monday declared a countrywide lockdown of schools, colleges, gyms and swimming pools — crowded areas that could allow for exponential spread of the virus. The government had last week declared the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country a “notified disaster”, in a move it called “a special one-time dispensation”.
In Maharashtra, the state government said it would “stamp” all those who have been sent to home quarantine as the number of cases climbed to 39.
Worldwide, over 7,000 people have died, more than one lakh has been infected in 143 countries. The WHO last week declared Europe as the epicentre of the pandemic.
On Monday, nearly 14,000 people were infected with the novel coronavirus globally – largest in a single day – bringing the total number of confirmed cases above 167,500, said the WHO.
