25-Year-Old Who Died In Gorakhpur Due To COVID-19 Is The Youngest Fatality In India Till Now
A 25-year-old man from Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, who died on Monday evening in Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, has become the first COVID-19-linked death in the state.? His samples tested positive for Coronavirus on Wednesday, two days after he died.?
This is the first coronavirus-related death in Uttar Pradesh and the victim is possibly the youngest in India to lose his life to the pandemic.According to BRD Medical College authorities, the youth was believed to have liver and kidney issues and had been undergoing treatment for the last three months.?
Authorities are now worried about the number of people who may have been infected or exposed since he was earlier admitted to a hospital in Basti.The youth had a history of travel to Mumbai but he hid this from the doctors.?
The man had been admitted to Gorakhpur's BRD medical college hospital on Sunday, with a breathing problem. However, here too he was admitted to the general ward and not the one reserved for COVID-19 patients.After his condition worsened, he was shifted to the ICU where he succumbed to his medical condition on Monday.His body was handed to relatives who brought it to Basti for the last rites.?
The patient was admitted to the general ward, where the virus may have spread to staff and other patients.The BRD Hospital doctors had sent his saliva sample to Lucknow's KGMU where his samples tested positive on Wednesday.?
"The man gave no information he had a travel history. This is the fault of the patient and his relatives. He said he had been ill for a month and had no fever at the time. He was diagnosed at the OPD (outpatient department) and admitted to the general ward. If he or his relatives had said, even once, that he had returned from Mumbai, we would have immediately sent him to the Coronavirus ward."Dr OP Singh, hospital-in-charge said.?
The Basti district administration has now sealed off the area in which he lived. All relatives he had contact with, have been identified and put into quarantine and also the doctors and paramedical staff at both, Basti and Gorakhpur hospitals.?
Patients and relatives who came into contact with him during his stay at either hospital have also been identified and will be isolated and tested.?
A second coronavirus patient also died in UP on Wednesday in Meerut medical college. His son-in-law is also admitted in the same hospital with Covid-19 infection. Both of them had been on ventilator since the past two days.?
The father-in-law, aged 72, had apparently got the infection from his son-in-law who had come to Meerut form Amravati in Maharashtra. Sixteen members of the same family have also tested positive for COVID-19 and are under medical observation.
