First COVID-19 patient of Tripura recovers, discharged from hospital

Agartala, Apr 15 () The first COVID-19 patient ofTripura was discharged from hospital on Wednesday as she hasrecovered and tested negative in consecutive tests, said ChiefMinister Biplab Kumar Deb.

The 46-year-old woman from Gomati district testedpositive for COVID-19 on April 6 and was admitted to AgartalaGovernment Medical College and Gobinda Ballav Pant Hospital.

The chief minister in a tweet said, "She has been sentfor institutional quarantine for 14 days under medicalsupervision at Udaipur. I pray to Mata Tripura Sundari so thatstate turns corona free soon."

The woman had travelled to Guwahati.

The samples of the woman tested negative for the novelcoronavirus for the second time on Monday, officials said.

On April 10, a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) personnelalso tested positive for coronavirus. Both the TSR personneland the woman had travelled in the same train on March 19.

Tripura so far has reported two COVID-19 case. JOYRG RG