Co-morbid patients account for most recent Kolkata Covid deaths

KOLKATA: Bengal reported two Covid deaths on Wednesday, the multiple fatalities in the course of a single day occurring after more than one-and-a-half months, but following a trend: almost all the deaths observed over the previous few weeks were that of elderly, co-morbid patients.
The first person who died was a 72-year-old man with an intercranial neoplasm (brain tumour), who incidentally tested Covid-positive on Tuesday. This person died at the Infectious Diseases & Beliaghata General Hospital on Wednesday morning. The patient was being treated at Diamond Harbour Medical College since June 10 before he being shifted to the state's nodal Covid hospital on Tuesday night. The other person who died on Wednesday was also elderly, and with several co-morbidities, said health department sources. A few days ago, too, a 90-year-old, who was admitted to a government hospital with various co-morbidities, later tested positive and died.
Health officials, confirming the trend of almost all recent Covid deaths occurring in patients with existing co-morbidities who had tested Covid-positive incidentally, stressed the need for such people to remain extra cautious, now that cases were seeing an uptick. "From a total of 21 deaths in March, the number came down to four in April and trickled further to three in May. The death count this month is already eight. Most had various co-morbidities, and hence this section of the population needs to be all the more careful," said a senior official.