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The Hindu
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V. Kamalakara Rao

Visakhapatnam reports first co-morbid COVID-19 death

After nearly two years, a case of COVID-19 death has been reported in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

According to the AP State Health Department official sources, a 51-year old woman is believed to have died of COVID-19 while undergoing treatment at KGH here in the early hours on Tuesday. Her body was immediately shifted to the Chavulamadum crematorium yard, near the Visakhapatnam railway station, for cremation as per the COVID-19 protocol.

The woman, resident of Kancharapalem, was first admitted to the Government Chest Hospital here with health issues in her respiratory system. Upon testing positive for COVID-19, she was transferred to the KGH's special COVID-19 ward, where she died at around 3 am. on Tuesday.

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