India Tomorrow
KOCHI, MARCH 1- A Kerala man who recently returned from Malaysia, where the coronavirus cases have been rising, died on Saturday, doctors at a hospital in Ernakulam where he was being treated, have said. He was admitted to an isolation ward as a precautionary measure after he arrived in Kochi with several illnesses. The death comes after a day he was tested negative for the Corona Virus.
The man had been suffering from respiratory problems and pneumonia. He was also a diabetic, doctors said. The health department, however, has sent more samples of the man to be checked whether his death is linked to the coronavirus.
“In the preliminary investigation, we found he developed acute pneumonia and respiratory distress syndrome. We also understood that he was diabetic. Blood sugar can flare up when there is an acute infection,” Hindustam Times quoted Dr Ganesh Mohanan, a senior doctor of the Government Medical College Hospital as saying. The Health Department, however, has sent more samples of the man to check whether his death is linked to the coronavirus.
Three people in India who had confirmed to have the virus have been discharged from hospital after they recovered and tested negative for the coronavirus. Groups of Indians who came from China are under quarantine, while some of them have been released after staying under observation for weeks.
The World Health Organisation on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to sub-Saharan Africa and financial markets slumped. The virus has proliferated around the globe over the past week, emerging on every continent except Antarctica, prompting many governments and businesses to try to stop people from travelling or gathering in crowded places. The number of dead in China has risen to 2,870, while confirmed cases have increased to 79,824.
