New Delhi: Sixty-nine-year-old doctor John L. Sailo Ryntathiang died in Shillong due to Covid-19 in the early hours of Wednesday, the first death in the state of Meghalaya. Six of his family members have also tested positive for the coronavirus.
Dr Sailo, who completed his MBBS from AMC Dibrugarh and his MD in medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, was well-known in Shillong as the owner of the Bethany Hospital. He had tested positive for Covid-19 in Shillong Monday.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma took to Twitter to express his condolences to the bereaved family.
Dr Sailo had no history of foreign travel when he contracted the deadly virus, a health official who didn’t wish to be named told ThePrint. The official said he may have contracted the virus from a “silent carrier”.
“Only his son-in-law, Arthur Wungthingthing, who is an Air India pilot, had a travel history to some of the affected countries, but he didn’t have any symptoms of contamination from the virus,” the official said.
CM Sangma has, however, stated there isn’t fool-proof evidence that the doctor contracted the disease from his son-in-law, and that the investigation into the matter is still going on.
Wungthingthing had travelled from New York to Delhi on 16 March, after which he travelled from Delhi to Imphal and then went back to Delhi on 20 March, according to a letter issued by the commissioner and secretary of Meghalaya Health Department to the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Wungthingthing was placed under home quarantine from 24 March to 7 April.
15/04/20 Bismee Taskin/Print
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Dr Sailo, who completed his MBBS from AMC Dibrugarh and his MD in medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, was well-known in Shillong as the owner of the Bethany Hospital. He had tested positive for Covid-19 in Shillong Monday.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma took to Twitter to express his condolences to the bereaved family.
Dr Sailo had no history of foreign travel when he contracted the deadly virus, a health official who didn’t wish to be named told ThePrint. The official said he may have contracted the virus from a “silent carrier”.
“Only his son-in-law, Arthur Wungthingthing, who is an Air India pilot, had a travel history to some of the affected countries, but he didn’t have any symptoms of contamination from the virus,” the official said.
CM Sangma has, however, stated there isn’t fool-proof evidence that the doctor contracted the disease from his son-in-law, and that the investigation into the matter is still going on.
Wungthingthing had travelled from New York to Delhi on 16 March, after which he travelled from Delhi to Imphal and then went back to Delhi on 20 March, according to a letter issued by the commissioner and secretary of Meghalaya Health Department to the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Wungthingthing was placed under home quarantine from 24 March to 7 April.
15/04/20 Bismee Taskin/Print
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