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AHMEDABAD, MARCH 29
A 47-year-old coronavirus patient died in Ahmedabad on Sunday morning, taking the total number of deaths due to coronavirus in Gujarat to five, while a 34-year-old patient was discharged from an Ahmedabad-based hospital following her full recovery, an official of state’s health department said.
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The health department also informed that the man, a labourer, was also suffering from diabetes. He was admitted to the Civil hospital on March 27 after complaints of fever, common cold and breathlessness. Sources in the hospital said that he was a diabetic for the past 15 years.
With this, the number of deaths due to coronavirus in Ahmedabad has gone up to three.
According to a statement issued by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SVP Hospital), a 34-year-old woman who was admitted on March 18 for coronavirus treatment has been discharged on Sunday following her total recovery.
After her full recovery, she has subjected two more tests in the last 24 hours and both were negative, the SVP medical superintendent said.
Meanwhile, a 46-year-old woman, who died on Saturday due to coronavirus, was buried amid protest in her locality. She was first taken to a graveyard near her house in Astodia where a large number of people came out of their homes protesting the burial there, fearing the spread of coronavirus.
The protest forced the authorities to take her to municipal corporation-run graveyard at Gunj Shahid in Danilimbda. When the dead body was brought here, the local who live close to the graveyard started protesting fearing the spread of virus. It was only after the police were brought in that the burial could be performed. Officials said that an earth mover dug up a 10-foot deep pit where she was buried as per the guidelines prescribed under “COVID-19 dead body management.”
The burial was performed by officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation wearing surgical mask and gloves and caretakers of the graveyard. Sources said that no religious rituals could be performed to avoid body fluids that spreads the virus. This was the second burial of a COVID-19 patient at this graveyard. Earlier, an 85-year-old woman was also buried here. The third patient from Ahmedabad who died today is also likely to be buried here later in the day.
Earlier, one death each was reported from Bhavnagar and Surat.
Till Saturday evening, the number of coronavirus cases in the state stood at 55.
