Kanpur: For the first time in the ongoing month, five Covid-19 patients died in a single day on Tuesday. In first nine days of November, five Covid-19 patients had succumbed. The deceased were residents of Naubasta, Gangapur, Babupurwa, Krishna Nagar and Maswanpur. Of the five deceased, two were women. Of the total, three deaths took place in LLR hospital, while all the deceased, according to the health department, were suffering from some ailment.
On November 2, 3, 5 and 7, no patient had lost battle to the coronavirus. So far since March this year, a total of 745 Covid patients have lost their lives to the deadly virus. The deceased were those who were also suffering from some or the other ailment such as diabetes, heart disease and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), to name a few.
District health department informed TOI that 72 more people were tested positive for Covid on Tuesday. In comparison to the fresh coronavirus cases, only eight people who had recovered from Covid-19 were discharged from hospitals. Another lot of 44 people completed home isolation. The active cases, thereafter, stood at 788. So far, a total of 28,584 persons have been tested positive for Covid.