Uttar Pradesh reports first coronavirus death case in Gorakhpur man who passed away on Monday

LUCKNOW: The first casualty of COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh surfaced in Gorakhpur after confirmatory test report of a patient, who had been undergoing treatment at Baba Raghav Das Medical (BRD) College, came to light on Wednesday morning. However, the patient had lost the batlle of life on Monday night.

A youth, 25, from Basti district was admitted to the BRD Medical College on Sunday as he had chest infection and sore throat. As per sources, suspecting him to be a COVID-19 case, his sample was sent to King Georges’ Medical University (KGMU ) Lucknow for coronavirus test.

According to KGMU spokesman Dr Sudhir Singh, the sample of the youth was received at the university for testing on Tuesday. The report came on Wednesday morning confirming the youth to be positive for the deadly virus.

This is the first corona virus-related death in Uttar Pradesh and possibly the youngest person to lose his life to the pandemic.

According to BRD Medical College authorities, the youth was believed to have medical conditions related to liver and kidney and had been undergoing treatment for the last three months. “We suspected Coronavirus infliction in him so we sent his sample to KGMU Lucknow for testing. Before his report could come out, he died on Monday night,” said BRD Medical College Principal, Dr Ganesh Kumar.

Dr Kumar said that though he had yet to receive the report of the deceased, but as a precautionary measure, the medical college staff who had been in contact with the deceased were isolated.

Moreover, Basti district administration was also informed about the death and all measures were taken to quarantine his family, relatives and doctors where he had been taking treatment before coming to BRD Medical College.

Meanwhile, alert over the emergent situation, Basti administration has sealed entire Turkharia village and screening was on to search for any positive case.