45 Days Infant Dies Due to Covid-19 Infection in Delhi Hospital

A one-and-a-half-month-old baby has died of coronavirus infection at a hospital in Delhi, officials said on Sunday, in perhaps the first fatality of an infant due to Covid-19 in the national capital.

The infant passed on at Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital appended to the Center-run Lady Hardinge Medical College. 

"The infant was brought to the medical clinic a couple of days back. He tried positive for Covid-19. The kid was admitted to SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Illness) ward and kicked the bucket



yesterday," a specialist at the medical clinic said on the state of namelessness. 

The surveillance group has been educated for contact following, he said.

The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital has climbed to 1,893, according to the Delhi government.

As per the age profile of Covid-19 victims in Delhi shared by the health department, of the total 43 fatalities, 24 were above 60 years. Nine were aged between 50-60 and 10 were aged below 50, officials said.