Banga man, who died of heart attack, tests positive for coronavirus

Tribune News Service
Nawanshahr, March 19

A man, who died at a civil hospital in Banga on Wednesday, is confirmed to have suffered from coronavirus according to tests conducted by the state government.

Another man, in Bara Pind in Jalandhar, who was suspected to have the disease, has tested negative.

The samples are being forwarded to a facility in Pune for confirmation.

Baldev Singh (70), the deceased, a resident of Pathlawa village, had recently travelled to Germany and Italy.

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The area around his village, upto a 3-km radius, has been sealed. A government doctor, who treated him, has been quarantined. His relatives and friends, whom he had come in contact with, are being quarantined. Singh’s house has been sealed since Wednesday.

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Doctors on Wednesday told The Tribune that the family had intimated the health officials of Baldev’s travel history only after he died of a heart attack. Villagers said while he had gone to Germany, he also stopped over at Italy for a few days, before coming back to India.