Mumbai: A six-day-old male infant, his 26-year old mother, a policeman and a nurse are among the 33 new Covid-19 positive cases clocked in Maharashtra, taking the state’s total number to 335, while the number of deaths shot up by five to 16 on Wednesday, officials said here.
“My son was born late at night on March 26 at a Chembur private hospital where a patient undergoing treatment was later found Covid-19 positive,” the child’s distraught father V. Singh, 32, told IANS.
“We were asked to immediately leave the hospital which was being quarantined and the doctors refused to attend to us. But, we refused to leave. The reports of my wife and our son came positive around midnight and since then we are in Kasturba Hospital,” said Singh, breaking down.
He requested the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Health Minister Rajesh Tope to ensure proper care for his infant son and wife.
The Covid-19 death toll shot up by five today – the single highest in a day so far, a senior health officer said.
They include a 51-year old man and a 75-year old man, both from Mumbai with no history of foreign travel, while details of other victims are awaited, health officials said. IANS
