Lucknow reported one more coronavirus case on Monday with a 73-old woman testing positive, taking the tally of confirmed COVID-19 patients in the state capital to nine.
The old lady is the mother-in-law of the first coronavirus patient in the city, 35-year-old Canadian doctor who had tested positive for the virus, and wife of a retired Army colonel.
State Surveillance Officer Vikasendu Aggarwal said the woman had been admitted to the Command Hospital in Lucknow.
“The lady was asymptomatic and had tested negative in the first test. However, when she developed urinary tract infection, we got her tested for coronavirus and she tested positive,” he said.
The defence PRO said that the old lady’s daughter-in-law had tested positive for COVID-19 had on March 10.
“Based on the symptoms of the old lady, swab was collected at CHCC Lucknow on March 28 and tested on March 29. She tested positive in both screening, and confirmatory test by NIV Pune. The patient is in isolation ward of Base Hospital specially set up for coronavirus positive cases. She is a resident of Gomti Nagar,” the Army PRO confirmed.
With no coronavirus positive case coming to light in the past nine days, Lucknow had almost scripted a success story until the new case on Monday.
