A 57-year-old patient succumbs at a city private hospital on March 23 making him the first novel Coronavirus death reported in West Bengal, an official said.

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The 57-year-old man was on ventilator support at the ICCU of the AAMRI Hospital, Salt Lake, and died following a cardiac arrest on March 23 afternoon. The resident of Dum Dum in Kolkata's northern suburb was detected with the disease on March 21 evening after reports from two of the testing facilities -- SSKM and NICED -- returned positive.