COVID-19 patient dies

Kathmandu - A person suffering from COVID-19 has died in Pyuthan. He is 64-year-old man from Sworgadwari municipality-7 in Pyuthan district. He died at the Corona Special Hospital at Butwal in course of treatment today, Health Office Pyuthan's information officer and COVID-19 focal person, Pushkal Shrestha, said.

He had come home from India on August 10 and had been staying in quarantine. He tested positive for coronavirus in a test conducted on him on August 16. He was taken to Butwal on August 17 for treatment after he complained of difficulty in breathing and was running fever. He was a patient of diabetes and high blood pressure.