A four-month-old baby girl has passed away due to Coronavirus in Kerala on Friday morning leaving the state, which posses a model for the country on combating the spread, to mark its fourth fatality claimed by the pandemic. 

According to the reports, the baby was tested positive for the virus on Wednesday and was getting treated at the government medical college in Kozhikode, Kerala, where she succumbed to the virus. The authorities are yet to ascertain the source of infection and how she contracted the disease. After she turned out to be positive, the samples of her parents have collected and the results of the samples would get delivered later on Friday.

The reports say that one of her relatives had tested positive for the virus after returning from abroad. However, the relative didn't have any direct contacts neither with the baby nor with her family. The baby was diagnosed with health ailment since her birth and she was taken to a private hospital in Manjeri, Malappuram district on April 17th after suffering from breathing difficulties.

She was then taken to another hospital before getting admitted to the Kozhikode medical college on April 21 with fever and breathing difficulties and on Wednesday, she was tested positive for the virus and was treated with the ventilator support. However, she died of a heart ailment after testing positive for the virus. Five doctors from two hospitals in Manjeri who treated the baby have now been kept under quarantine. Her death has been reported exactly one day after a six-month-old died in Chandigarh.

The state of Kerala was the first to report the virus in India. However, the state has rolled out extensive measures to tackle the spread through which it has contained the human to human transmitting virus and reported one of the highest numbers of recoveries and lowest death toll. According to the Union Health Ministry, Kerala has reported 447 positive cases of which 324 had recovered and four had died of the virus.