A 44-year-old woman resident of Kalimpong town in West Bengal, who was admitted to a hospital in Siliguri after contracting Covid-19, died early Monday, officials said.
“The patient died at 2am on Monday,” Dr Praloy Acharya, the chief medical officer of Darjeeling district, said.
Dr PK Deb, principal of North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) where she died, also confirmed her death.
The state health department had said on Saturday that the woman had tested positive and was admitted at NBMCH.
The woman saw a doctor at a private nursing home in Kalimpong on March 20, a day after she flew into the state from Chennai with her daughter.
“The patient had normal blood pressure and no other ailments. Her only problem was that she was extremely overweight,” the private doctor, who is now in home isolation, said.
The Kalimpong district authorities have started tracing other people who came in contact with the woman.
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