A 47-year-old COVID-19-infected woman, P-2783, died in Bidar on Thursday, taking the toll in the district to four.
As per the evening media bulletin released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, the patient had been paralysed and bedridden for the last eight years. She also had other comorbidities such as hypertension and convulsion. She was admitted to hospital on May 24 upon having complained of Influenza-like Illness.
Earlier, the district had reported three COVID-19 deaths. It reported its first casualty on April 28 with the death of an 82-year-old man, who was admitted to hospital on the evening of April 27 for Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) and died the next day, before his sample tested positive for the disease on May 29. He was later codenamed P-590. He spread the infection to as many as eight people.
The district reported its second fatality on May 12 with the death of a 52-year-old man, P-1041, on May 12. His sample tested positive for COVID-19 on May 15. The deceased, a resident of Chitguppa, had a travel history to Hyderabad and was admitted to hospital as a SARI case. He transmitted the infection to two more people.
On May 27, Bidar registered its third casualty with the death of a 49-year-old patient (P-1712). The patient was admitted to hospital as a case of SARI after he complained of fever, cough and breathlessness. He was also a known case of diabetes mellitus.
New cases
The district also reported 10 fresh cases of COVID-19, including two girls, aged seven and five, on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 130. This includes the four deaths and 27 people discharged after recovery.
Of the new cases, nine returned from other States — seven from Maharashtra and two from Delhi. The remaining one was a case of Influenza-Like Illness. The district also reported three recoveries (P-857, P-891, and P-892). There were 99 active cases of COVID-19 in the district as on Saturday evening.
