Father, son die in a span of few hours, later test positive for COVID-19

Tragedy struck a family residing on Manewada-Besa Road as it lost two of its members within a couple of hours on Friday. Even as the family was yet to come to terms with the loss, the members learnt that the deceased, a father-son duo, tested Covid positive on Saturday at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) where they had been declared ‘brought dead’ on Friday. At the time when the son, 31, was declared dead at the GMCH, his 67-year-old father too started feeling uneasy and later collapsed at their home. He had no Covid symptoms till date. He was rushed to the GMCH where he was referred to by a private clinic in Manewada but the doctors declared him dead before admission.

The family performed the last rites on Saturday afternoon after MNC workers brought the bodies from GMCH. The family is planning to undergo Covid tests soon. As per a TOI report, the son who was looking for a job, had developed some cough and felt uneasiness in the chest on Thursday late evening, but had no temperature. The family had taken him to a doctor in Manewada who prescribed some tablets and sent him home. On Friday, after one of the family members gave some medicines to the son he collapsed on the spot. The family rushed him to the hospital but was declared dead. It’s learnt the senior citizen, who was a priest, had collapsed on hearing about the critical condition of his elder son. The family feels that he might have suffered a cardiac arrest. “We have no clue how my elder brother and father got infected as they had barely stepped out of home in the last few days, said the brother. In the meanwhile, GMCH treated the deaths as ‘medico-legal case’ as the victims were brought dead and later tested Covid positive. Accidental death was registered in both cases at Hudkeshwar.