10-month baby dies in Uttar Pradesh quarantine centre

Siddhartha Nagar : A 10-month-old girl has died at the Chaurasi village primary school quarantine centre in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

The girl's father Rajendra Prasad said that on Thursday evening his daughter was restless and developed measles-like symptoms on Friday and died the following day.

This is the first quarantined infantile death in the state.

According to reports, the baby fell ill on Thursday and when her condition deteriorated, she was rushed to the district hospital in Uska Bazar area in an ambulance on Saturday where the doctors declared her brought dead.

The family members later buried her in the village.