Two more persons died of COVID-19 in Malappuram district on Wednesday. The deaths of a 67-year-old man from Pallikkal near Tenhipalam and a 72-year-old man from Kondotty raised the district’s COVID-19 toll to 11.
While the Pallikkal man died at Government Medical College Hospital, Manjeri, the man from Kondotty died at Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode. Both suffered heart attacks.
The Pallikkal man was admitted to a private hospital in Kozhikode on July 24 with severe breathlessness. On confirming that he was COVID-19 positive, the authorities shifted him to Government Medical College Hospital in Manjeri on July 25.
He was put on noninvasive ventilation (NIV) considering his history of diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiac problems. He died on Wednesday morning.
The man from Kondotty was admitted to Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, with fever, cough and breathlessness on July 27. He was tested COVID-19 positive.
Medical College authorities said that he had been put on mechanical ventilation by giving endotracheal intubation. He developed Covid pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
He suffered cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning. Medical College authorities cited Covid pneumonia with severe ARDS and cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause of death.
