Bengal selector tests positive for COVID-19
May 29, 2020, 21:55 IST
Kolkata, May 29 () Bengal selector Sagarmoy Sensharma has tested positive for COVID-19, Cricket Association of Bengal President Avishek Dalmiya said on Friday.
Earlier, the state government had attributed the death of 72 coronavirus patients to co-morbidity. TAP PDS PDS
A member of their 1989-90 Ranji Trophy winning squad, the former Bengal pacer Sensharma is learnt to have contracted the coronavirus from his wife.
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Confirming this, Dalmiya told : "His wife was first tested positive for COVID-19 and after she recovered, Sagarmoyda has tested positive. But his rest of the family members have tested negative. The CAB has cleared his all his dues."
The 54-year-old has been admitted to a private hospital on EM Bypass.
West Bengal on Thursday had registered the biggest one-day spike with 344 people testing positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 4,536.
As many as 223 people have succumbed to the disease in the state so far.
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