A 70-year-old male patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 died in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar early on March 26. He was the third victim of the highly contagious COVID-19 in the State.
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His death came barely 12 hours after an 85-year-old woman died at the Ahmedabad civil hospital on Wednesday night. Earlier, a person from Surat died, in the first casualty of COVID-19 in the State.
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Meanwhile, positive cases touched 43 in the State, as per the briefing by the State Health Department. According to Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi, four new cases were detected — one each from Ahmedabad, Surat, Bhavnagar and Gandhinagar.
Ahmedabad has 15 cases, as per data shared by the Health Department.
