A 64-year-old man among the 14 patients who tested positive for Coronavirus died on Tuesday morning marking it the first death in the city and state of a positive patient. He had earlier been admitted at Hinduja hospital for other cardiac ailments and officials from the state health department said that he died of multi-organ failure.

Civic officials said that considering this is a case of infectious disease, no post mortem will be conducted. "The patient had high blood pressure, pneumonia, inflammation of heart muscles, and increased heart rate leading to death with Coronavirus," said a civic official.