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A 63-year-old woman of Rattangarh in Ambala City, who had on Monday tested positive for Covid, died at the PGI in Chandigarh on Saturday, Civil Surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh said. This was the second Covid death reported in the district. He said the woman was a diabetes, kidney and liver patient for which she was undergoing dialysis thrice a week for the past 25 years. “Last week, she had tested negative here but on April 27 she had tested positive at Chandigarh GMCH-32, from where she was shifted to the PGI in a critical condition,” said the Civil Surgeon, adding that the residential area of the patient had been sealed and her contacts had already been home-quarantined even after they had tested negative. Meanwhile, the condition of a 42-year-old man of Tharva village in the district, who had tested positive on April 25, was stated to be stable at the PGI. He was the lone hospitalised Covid patient in the district. Earlier, 11 Covid patients from the district had been discharged after getting cured while one had died.