3 more test positive for COVID-19 in Bengal, total count 21

Three more persons in West Bengal tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 21, an official said.

One of them, a 52-year-old doctor at a city-based Army hospital, had recently returned from Delhi, while the travel history of a 66-year-old man was yet to be ascertained. The third, a 59-year-old-man from Hooghly's Sheoraphuli, had recently travelled to Durgapur, according to the official.

"The doctor and the 66-year-old man had complained of severe respiratory distress. They are undergoing treatment at separate hospitals in the city," he said.

The man from Sheoraphuli has been admitted to a private hospital in the city since Saturday with fever, cough and a mild respiratory trouble, the official said.

"He is a diabetic and hypertensive patient and had travelled to Durgapur before March 16," a hospital official said. "He is currently admitted in the ICCU isolation ward with respiratory distress."
"He has no history of travelling abroad or to any other state in the country. But as per the information received, his brother had recently returned from Madhya Pradesh," the official said. "We need to find out whether that person has any infection or not."