After reporting 15 COVID 19 positive cases since the epidemic outbreak, Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday reported first death due to this virus as a 65-year-old woman being treated at Indore died. After reporting breathing problems, the woman was initially admitted to a hospital in Ujjain and later was shifted to MY Hospital Indore. The woman breathed her last at around 5.30pm. Hailing from a poor family, the 65-year-old woman had no significant travel history and reportedly got in touch with her daughter who is married in Indore. The woman had fallen ill on March 22 and was admitted into a charitable hospital in Ujjain, CMHO Ujjain Anusuiya Gawli told the media. She was later shifted to Madhav Nagar hospital in Ujjain and after showing symptoms of COVID 19, she was referred to Indore. Besides, visiting anti-CAA protest site in Ujjain, the administration is unaware about her travel history. However, there was no official confirmation on this. Curfew was clamped in Ujjain after this woman was tested positive for this virus early on Wednesday. The district administration has sealed the area where the woman used to live. To add, four others tested positive for this virus in Indore on Wednesday also surprisingly don’t have any foreign travel history. Two of them, though did visit Hrishikesh in Uttarakhand recently. Alarmed with this trend, the administration in Indore is busy scanning the travel history of these patients and is ascertaining whether they came in touch with any foreign national recently. “The woman who died on Wednesday was suffering from high diabetes and respiratory issues,” Indore collector Lokesh Kumar Jatav told the media persons, confirming that the woman had tested positive for COVID19. We are tracking her travel history from Ujjain, added the officer. He further claimed that total 29 family members of these five positive patients have been identified but none had showed Corona symptoms in initial screening. The age of four patients in Indore range from 49 years to 68 years. Besides, a man father of a girl who earlier tested positive for COVID 19 had reported positive on Wednesday and was admitted to AIIMS Bhopal.

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