24 days, see-saw recovery: Punjabs first COVID-19 patient defeats the virus!
Posted on: 28/Mar/2020 5:04:16 PM
The first COVID-19 case of Punjab, an Italy-returned NRI who was treated and cured at the Guru Dev Hospital Amritsar, said that he had never thought that it would take him 24 days to reach home in his village in Hoshiarpur district after landing in Amritsar from Italy in less than 12 hours.
The 44 -year-old, a native of Hoshiarpur’s Khanoor village, reached his village Friday along with his wife and 14-year-old son after being discharged from the hospital. All three of them had landed at the Amritsar airport on March 3.
The cured man shared, “I had myself told airport authorities in Amritsar that we need medical aid because I was having a cough, while my son was suffering from fever. Though my wife did not show any symptoms they quarantined all of us at an isolation ward of the Amritsar Hospital,
The 44-year-old’s cousin had died of coronavirus in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region on March 23, while he was undergoing treatment at the Amritsar hospital. Both his wife and son, however, had tested negative for the virus.
