Chandigarh, April 23: The six-month-old girl from Phagwara, who was admitted to PGIMER Chandigarh for corrective heart surgery has died.
She had tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday.
She was on ventilator till Wednesday night.
Dr Ashok, PGI spokesperson, confirmed that the girl died on Thursday afternoon.
The baby weighing 3 kg was diagnosed with acyanotic congenital heart disease with congestive heart failure.
She had been referred to the PGI from a Ludhiana hospital where she had spent 36 days. She was admitted to the Advanced Paediatric Centre on April 9 in a critical condition.
She was later sent to Covid facility at Nehru Hospital Extension.
Meanwhile, all close contacts of the baby are being screened.
Earlier, PGI officials had said they were investigating as to how the baby got the infection. Given that the incubation period of Covid is upto two weeks, it is possible that the baby may have been incubating the infection at the time of admission to the PGI, they had said.
