Health officials in Mumbai said on Monday a 68-year-old man from the Philippines has died after contracting the Covid-19 disease, taking the death toll in Maharashtra to three so far.
Officials also said 15 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the state, bringing the number of coronavirus cases to 89 so far, the highest in the country.
The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release that the man was declared dead on Sunday night.
He was admitted at the civic-body run Kasturba Gandhi Hospital on March 13 and later shifted to a private hospital.
“He was a case of diabetes mellitus and asthma and was admitted on 13th March with symptoms. He had developed acute renal failure and respiratory distress,” the release said.
BMC officials said the man had turned negative in his swab test but his condition deteriorated due to his co-morbid health reasons.
“We can’t say that he got cured. Until a person completes all the 14 days of treatment in an isolation ward, we can’t declare any patient as cured. But his pre-existing health ailments affected his recovery,” a BMC health officer said.
The country’s hardest-hit state by Sars-Cov-2 had said on Sunday a 63-year-old man had died at a private hospital in Mumbai.
Maharashtra has announced a near-total shutdown of the state till March 31, in line with the Centre’s extraordinary new measures to arrest the spread of the coronavirus.
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