COVID-19: Four patients recover, discharged from SKIMS

SRINAGAR — Four COVID-19 patients including a 10-year-old boy from Srinagar were discharged from SKIMS, Srinagar after recovering from the lethal infection.

“10-year-old boy who was tested positive for COVID-19 infection a couple of weeks ago is stable and has recovered fully. He has been discharged from the hospital today and besides him, 3 more patients who also recovered from this disease were discharged,” Nodal Officer for Coronavirus at SKIMS, Dr Ghulam Hasan Itoo said.

This 10-year-old boy from Rathpora Eidgah had been tested positive after he came into contact with a Tableegi Jamaat member in a local mosque.

“We had collected his samples repeatedly and thankfully, his re-confirmation test was found out negative once again,” he said, adding that the boy has been handed over to family and he is fine.

Munir Ahmed, the father of the boy said that he was informed by the doctors that his son has recovered and tested negative. “We are relieved and thankful to Almighty,” he said.

In Eidgah locality, three patients have tested positive for COVID-19 infection so for.

Dr Itoo said that among the four patients who were discharged from the hospital, two are from Bandipora and one from Budgam.