Vadodara/ Anand: An NRI from Anand who was settled in the United States (US) has died of Covid-19 on Friday. He was resident of Vasna village of Anand’s Borsad taluka.
Sources said that Shailesh Patel had tested positive before ten days after which he was hospitalised but he succumbed in course of treatment.
The 45-year-old had gone to US before a decade, but his family stays in Vasna village. There have been reports of many NRIs from the Charotar region succumbing to the deadly virus mainly in US.
Meanwhile, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases in Anand district reached 122 with a 80-year-old man, a resident of Anand city, testing positive. The elderly man is a resident of Maulana Mension on Polson Dairy Road.
As many as 99 of the 120 patients have been discharged so far and 12 have died due to Covid-19.