<span style="color: #222222;">Health Ministry has said the death of a 76 year old male from Karnataka is confirmed to be caused due to co-morbidity and has  also tested positive for COVID-19. The person visited Saudi Arabia recently, came back to Hyderabad on 29th February and went to Kalaburgi. He was a known case of hypertension and asthma.<br />''<br />''While he was asymptomatic on his return, he developed symptoms of fever and cough on 6th March. The sample was collected to rule out COVID-19 and dispatched to Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute. Without waiting for the test results, the attendees took the person to a private hospital in Hyderabad.<br />''<br />''The patient on Tuesday when he was being brought back to GIMS in Kalaburgi.<br />''<br />''All the precautionary measures as per protocol such as contact tracing, screening and home quarantine of the contacts have been initiated by the District Health and Family Welfare Department.</span><br />