Lucknow:This is the first case in Uttar Pradesh where a doctor attending to positive and suspected coronavirus patients has been tested positive.
A doctor at Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow’s leading hospital who was part of the team attending to suspected and positive coronavirus patients, has tested positive for Covid-19, spokesperson of the city’s King George’s Medical University said on Wednesday.
“His sample tested positive for the virus while samples of his 14 other colleagues in the same team tested negative. The doctor who tested positive had collected samples of many patients,” said Dr Sudhir Singh spokesperson KGMU.
This is the first case in Uttar Pradesh where a doctor attending to positive and suspected coronavirus patients has been tested positive. The country’s first case of a doctor contracting the infection from a patient was reported from Karnataka. A 63-year-old doctor who had treated a 76-year-old man who had returned from Saudi Arabia and was the first Indian to die of the new coronavirus had also tested positive for the disease. The doctor was sent to an isolation ward and his family quarantined.