More than 100 people were infected with the new coronavirus in India after participating, a few days apart, in the wedding and funeral of a young man who possibly contracted covid-19, reports the local press.
More than 400 people attended the wedding ceremony, on June 15, of a 26-year-old man who had symptoms of the disease and who died two days after the wedding, with hundreds of people attending the funeral.
“So far, 111 people, who participated in the wedding or funeral, have shown positive results. All others have been identified and have started isolation”, he told the AFP Raj Kishor Chaudhary, chief physician of Patna, the regional capital of Bihar.
The authorities established a special testing area for people who attended both events after a focus on the region was detected.
The groom’s family is being investigated. Doctors do not know whether the deceased was responsible for all the contamination, as the body was quickly cremated by family members before a diagnostic examination.
No relative of the groom, including his wife / widow, tested positive for the new coronavirus.
A computer engineer in Guargaon, a satellite city in New Delhi, the young man returned home just a week before marriage and had a fever and diarrhea, said Raj Kishor Chaudhary. He was hospitalized for a few days, but the family took him home and treated him with drugs, having celebrated the wedding despite his health.
The number of covid-19 cases in India has already surpassed 600,000 since the start of the pandemic, after the country recorded 19,148 infections in the last 24 hours, the authorities announced Thursday.
The new official count is 604,641 cases, with 100,000 registered in the last four days alone.
The Indian Minister of Health also indicated that the new coronavirus has killed 17,834 people in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
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