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GUWAHATI: Meghalaya’s first Covid-19 patient, a 69-year-old doctor at a Shillong hospital, died early morning and hours later his six family members and helpers also tested positive.

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma said in his tweet, “Of the 68 tested so far, 6 have come out positive who are all family members & helpers of the first #Covid19 positive case. 6 other cases are being retested. All the rest of the cases are negative. (sic)”

Sangma said that the health department is sanitising areas adjoining Nongrim Hills, near Bethany Hospital Shillong, where the first positive case was working. He had tested positive on Monday and died on Wednesday morning at the hospital.

Sangma has appealed to people who might have visited Bethany Hospital in Shillong on or after March 22 to report to health department by calling 108.

The state government had also declared a 48-hour curfew in Shillong after the first positive case was recorded.

