Pragativahini News, Belagavi : The 85-year-old woman from Hirebagewadi village in Belagavi taluk who died on Monday morning was not due to cardiac arrest, as the doctors opined, but due to Corona Virus. With the death of the woman, the district lost its first life for the pandemic.
The woman was one among the first direct contact of those from Hirebagewadi village tested positive. She is a grand-mother of one of the positives who returned from religious convention at Delhi.
After a person detected positive, medical team with police been to the village and took all the other members of the family for test and to quarantine on Sunday night, however, the woman scared with the arrival of police to the house had been to the neighbours house and hid.
Next day, on Monday morning she found dead at the home and as she was one of the family members of the positive’ family autopsy was conducted on her body and last rites according to the C-19 norms.
The doctors, on primary checkups had opined that the woman might have died due to cardiac arrest. However, the government health bulletin on Wednesday evening stated the death was due to C-19.
ಪ್ರಗತಿವಾಹಿನಿ ಸುದ್ದಿಗಳನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರಿಗೆ, ಬೇರೆ ಗ್ರುಪ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಶೇರ್ ಮಾಡಿ
