NEW DELHI : A 53-year-old COVID-19 positive railway technician has died at a hospital in Siliguri, following which at least 12 railway medical staffers have been sent to home-quarantine, officials said on Monday.

The deceased, who was a technician at the diesel shed at West Bengal’s Siliguri, died at the isolation ward of the North Bengal Medical College & Hospital in the town on Sunday, they said, adding he had tested positive for coronavirus.

Initially, he was admitted with fever and cough on March 24 at NJP Railway Hospital, from where he was referred to the Desun Nursing Home on March 25, the officials said.

The next day, he was shifted to the isolation ward of the North Bengal Medical College & Hospital (NBMC&H). Officials said that

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