Corona victim’s mother tests +ve for infection

Prayagraj: An 82-year-old woman tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19) on Thursday, two days after her son died of the infection in Prayagraj. She is the sixth member of the family to test positive for novel coronavirus.
The Lukerganj-based woman’s son was a civil engineer and was diagnosed with the virus on May 1. The 47-year-old man was Prayagraj’s first Covid-19 casualty and passed away at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital’s isolation ward on Tuesday night.
Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer Dr Rishi Sahai said, “The 82 -year old mother of the civil engineer, who died of corona virus late on Tuesday night, tested positive for the infection on Thursday. A medical team had collected the swab sample of the man’s mother, while she was quarantined at a centre on Wednesday. Her sample tested positive for the infection on Thursday. The elderly woman was later shifted to the isolation ward of SRN Hospital for further treatment.”
With Thursday’s development, Prayagraj’s tally of Covid-19 cases reached 16. Of these cases, one patient has been discharged and another has died of the infection. The remaining 14 patients are being treated at Covid-19 Level One Hospital in Kotwa and SRN Hospital.
The civil engineer’s wife, mother-in-law and two other family members also tested Covid-19 positive last week. His wife (37 years) was first taken to the special hospital set up for Covid-19 patients in Kotwa and was later shifted to SRN Hospital’s isolation ward. Doctors said her condition was stable.