{"id":24088,"date":"2020-04-19T23:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/1-and-a-half-month-old-baby-dies-of-covid-19-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T23:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:53:14","slug":"1-and-a-half-month-old-baby-dies-of-covid-19-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24088","title":{"rendered":"1-and-a-half-month-old baby dies of COVID-19 in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A one-and-a-half-month-old baby has died of coronavirus infection at a hospital in Delhi, officials said on Sunday, in perhaps the first fatality of an infant due to COVID-19 in the national capital.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/m.rediff.com\/amp\/news\/report\/one-and-a-half-month-old-baby-dies-of-covid-19-in-delhi\/20200419.htm\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The baby died at Kalawati Saran Children&#8217;s Hospital attached to the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The baby was brought to the hospital a few days ago. He tested positive for COVID-19. The child was admitted to SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Illness) ward and died yesterday,&#8221; a doctor at the hospital said on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surveillance team has been informed for contact tracing, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital has climbed to 1,893, according to the Delhi government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the age profile of COVID-19 victims in Delhi shared by the health department, of the total 43 fatalities, 24 were above 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine were aged between 50-60 and 10 were aged below 50, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, at least two doctors and six nurses at the Lady Hardinge Medical College have tested positive for coronavirus, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were all deployed at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospital has initiated a contact tracing to find out who all had come in contact with them in the last few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a doctor, a 10-month-old baby who was recently brought to the emergency department with respiratory problems had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the entire Paediatric ICU is being sanitised, the doctor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-and-a-half-month-old baby has died of coronavirus infection at a hospital in Delhi, officials said on Sunday, in perhaps the first fatality of an infant due to COVID-19 in the national capital. PTI The baby died at Kalawati Saran Children&#8217;s Hospital attached to the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College. &#8220;The baby was brought to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}