SOURAV GANGULY RECOVERED FROM COVID-19,UNDER HOME ISOLATION

(The Quiver) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly, who was admitted to the Woodlands hospital in Kolkata after testing positive for COVID-19, has been discharged on Friday after testing negative for the Omicron variant.

Despite being double-vaccinated, the former Indian skipper’s RT-PCR test had returned positive and Woodlands hospital had earlier released a statement to reveal his current status and said that he was doing well.

In a statement, the hospital informed that he received monoclonal antibody cocktail therapy on the same night and was “haemodynamically stable”.

A medical board comprising Dr Saroj Mondol, Dr Saptarshi basu and Dr Soutik Panda in consultation with Dr Devi Shetty and Dr Aftab Khan was keeping a close watch on his health status, the hospital said.

Ganguly will remain in home isolation for the next two weeks. “We have discharged Ganguly this afternoon. He will have to be in home isolation for the next fortnight under doctors’ observation. After that the next course of treatment will be decided,” a hospital official told PTI.