A 59-year-old man diagnosed with black, white and yellow fungus infections died in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad on Friday, reported DNA.
Quoting Dr. B P Tyagi, an ENT specialist at Harsh Hospital in Ghaziabad’s Raj Nagar area, DNA reported that a man named Kunwar Singh was COVID-19 positive too and he passed away due to toxemia, which is blood poisoning by toxins.
Tyagi added that Singh was a lawyer and had approached him recently with COVID-19 conditions and the black, white and yellow fungus infection were detected during endoscopy on 24 May, as per the report.
The government of Uttar Pradesh had recently made black fungus or mucormycosis a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act.