Lucknow: A 2.5-year-old child, admitted to King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow on Monday (April 6), wa
s discharged from the hospital after testing negative for novel coronavirus.
Doctors said that the baby boy, who recovered from the infection in less than a week, is ‘healthy’.
The toddler got the virus from his mother, who had a travel history to Canada and tested positive for COVID-19 on March 11. She was the first coronavirus case of the state capital.
Her mother, also a doctor, as a special case was given permission to stay with the child in the isolation ward after she recovered from the illness.
While the woman’s husband tested negative, her in-laws are still undergoing treatment after having tested positive for the virus.
A junior doctor, who was treating the woman, has also tested positive for COVID-19 and is under observation at KGMU.