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Punjab’s first coronavirus patient recovers, to be discharged today

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service
Mar 27, 2020 11:18 AM IST

Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh tweets: “Happy to share that our first case of COVID admitted to Govt Medical College, Amritsar, has successfully recovered and tested negative.”

CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s first coronavirus patient, who returned from Italy and is undergoing treatment in a government hospital in Amritsar, has tested negative and will be discharged on Friday, chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh said.

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“Happy to share that our first case of COVID admitted to Government Medical College Amritsar has successfully recovered & tested negative,” the chief minister tweeted.

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“The patient will be discharged today. It’s a great moment for us. I am sure we will win this War Against #Covid19,” he added.

The 44-year-old Hoshiarpur man, who returned to Amritsar from Milan via Delhi on March 4 along with his two family members, tested positive on March 9.

He was hospitalised along with his son.

A total of 33 patients in Punjab tested positive till Thursday with one death last week of Baldev Singh, 70, who had a travel history to Germany via Italy.

A trail of coronavirus community spread to 22 people related to Baldev Singh of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district from where 18 people tested positive, all belonging to his family.

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