India recorded its first case of coronavirus caused death in Karnataka on Thursday after the state health department confirmed that the 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who passed away on Tuesday tested positive or the disease that has infected 74 people in the country so far.

’76-yr-old man from Kalaburagi who passed away & was a suspected COVID-19 patient has been confirmed positive for COVID-19,’ said commissioner of Karnataka’s health department.

He added that the administration had begun contact tracing and isolation of all those who came in touch with the dead man. The man had revealed that he was treated in a hospital in Telangana as well.

The man had recently returned from Saudi Arabia and Karnataka officials had till yesterday denied that his death was due to coronavirus.

Karnataka Minister B Sriramulu had said that the man was suffering from pneumonia, hypertension and asthma and the government was waiting for the lab results from the National Institute of Virology, Pune before the death could be attributed to coronavirus

The man’s condition had deteriorated shortly after his return from Saudi Arabia on February 29 and he is reported to have died on Tuesday night in an ambulance while being moved between Karnataka and Telangana.

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