Updated On: 11 March, 2020 07:47 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Pandey said the deceased person's sample has been sent for testing. He requested the media to help the government create awareness and not creating panic

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The death of a 76-year-old man from north Karnataka due to coronavirus is a rumour, said a senior health official on Wednesday. "It is clarified that the rumours floating in the media regarding the death of the man from Kalaburgi owing to COVID-19 is false," said state Health Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey in a statement.

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