An
elderly man, who had recently undergone a
heart surgery and had also tested
Covid-19-positive, died in a
private hospital on Wednesday. His sample had been sent for Covid-19 test after the surgery as per protocol, and he had tested positive on Tuesday.
The health department, however, claimed that the man died of "refectory shock with severe
metabolic acidosis" and did not attribute the death to Covid-19.
Meanwhile,
Pauri district reported the sixth death at a quarantine centre late on Tuesday.
The patient, a middle-aged woman who had recently returned from Delhi with her family to her village in
Thalisain block was said to have died of “unknown causes.”