A bride tested positive for coronavirus on the third day of her marriage on Thursday, triggering panic among newly-married couples and their family members in Madhya Pradesh.
The 25-year-woman, a resident of Jat Khedi on the outskirt of Bhopal, got married on Tuesday despite being ill for the last several days. She was suffering from cold and fever for the past one week.
She had earlier taken anti-viral drugs to contain fever during her marriage, her case history said.
Her samples drawn on May 16 tested positive on Thursday.
The civic body officials rushed to her house to quarantine all 32 members of her family in their home, besides shifting her to a Covid-19 designated hospital here, Bhopal district administration officials said.
The reports of bride testing positive for coronavirus spread like wildfire in the state causing panic among the newly-married couples and their family members.
Family members of a number of just-married couples at several places in Bhopal, Indore and Gwalior have started contacting the local administrations pleading to collect their samples for tests following the development, reports reaching here from the areas said.
The incident has also set off alarm bells in the state administration in view of the ongoing marriage season.
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