{"id":2821,"date":"2020-03-19T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T11:40:09","slug":"72yr-old-punjab-man-who-died-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/72yr-old-punjab-man-who-died-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"72yr-old Punjab man who died tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sample of a 72-year-old man, who returned from Germany via Italy a\n fortnight ago and died at a hospital in Punjab&#8217;s Nawanshahr district \nafter severe chest pain, has tested positive for novel coronavirus, \nsenior officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The septuagenarian, who had \ndiabetes and hypertension, tested positive after he died at the Banga \ncommunity health centre on Wednesday, Postgraduate Institute of Medical \nEducation and Research (PGIMER) Director Jagat Ram said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When contacted, district civil surgeon Rajinder Prasad Bhatia said the man had arrived from Germany via Italy on March 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n resident of Banga came to the health centre with severe chest pain on \nWednesday and immediately collapsed. He died later in the day, Bhatia \nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The sample of a 72-year-old man from Nawanshahr has tested \npositive,&#8221; PGIMER Director Ram Director Jagat Ram told PTI on Thursday, \nadding that the report came on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Principal Secretary (Health) Anurag Aggarwal confirmed that the sample of the Banga resident had tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n number of novel coronavirus cases rose to 169 on Thursday after 18 \nfresh cases were reported from various parts of the country, according \nto the Union Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punjab had earlier reported a confirmed case of coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sample of a 72-year-old man, who returned from Germany via Italy a fortnight ago and died at a hospital in Punjab&#8217;s Nawanshahr district after severe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-corona-update","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}