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Kolkata records first COVID 19 death 

| @indiablooms | Mar 23, 2020, at 04:10 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Kolkata registered its first death due to COVID 19 as a patient, who was suffering from the virus infection, passed away at a private hospital in the city on Monday.

According to reports, this is the eighth death in the country since the COVID 19 outbreak occured in India.

Official sources said the 57-year-old Covid-19 positive patient, who was undergoing treatment under ventilation support at AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake, died on Monday, making it the first Corona death in Kolkata as well as West Bengal.

He was admitted in hospital on March 16.

His infection was detected later after testing.

He was a resident of DumDum, said reports.

So far, 415 people are infected by the disease in India.

The COVID 19, which is believed to have first originated from Wuhan city in China, has now hit normal life in more than 150 countries across the globe.

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