Man on flight from Malaysia to Amritsar declared dead on arrival

AMRITSAR: A native of Batala, who returned to Amritsar from Malaysia, was declared dead after his flight landed at Shri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport here in the wee hours of Sunday.

Hukum Singh, 41, had gone to Kuala Lumpur on a work visa on October 23, 2019, said his brother Harpal Singh. He took a flight from Malaysia on Saturday and reached the Amritsar airport at 12.30am.

Amritsar civil surgeon Dr Parbdeep Kaur Johal said immediately after landing, the passenger was shifted to a hospital near the airport where doctors declared him brought dead. The exact cause of the death will be known only after post-mortem.

Singh’s family members said he complained of a sudden chest pain in the flight. A message was conveyed to the airport authorities in Amritsar and an ambulance was kept ready. Dr Arun Sharma, senior medical officer of Amritsar civil hospital said: “It is a possibility that the passenger could have died due to coronavirus, but it is too early to reach a conclusion.”

2 GERMANY-RETURNED MEN KEPT IN ISOLATION

Two Punjab residents who returned from Germany have been admitted to the isolation ward of the Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH), Amritsar.

“A 24-year-old man was fine when he reached the Delhi airport but he complained of cough and fever when doctors were screening him at the Amritsar airport,” said the civil surgeon.

“On Saturday, four foreign tourists were quarantined at the rehabilitation centre in Amritsar. Of them, a 73-year-old man, who also returned from Germany, showed symptoms of coronavirus,” she said.

PROCESSION STOPPED IN LUDHIANA

LUDHIANA: A procession of around 1,000 devotees of Baba Balak Nath mandir, Ghumar Mandi, was stopped in the city on Sunday. The devotees agreed not to go ahead after being informed that the permission was null and void from Saturday night.

TECH INSTITUTE, ITI EXAMS TO CONTINUE

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has allowed technical institutes and industrial training centres to hold their examinations as per the original schedule, two days after announcing closure of all educational establishments till March 31 over the novel coronavirus pandemic. The technical education department revised its old order.

CAUSE OF DEATH OF BATALA MAN NOT KNOWN YET, BLOOD AND THROAT SWAB SAMPLES SENT FOR COVID-19 TESTING