Days after they tested positive for COVID-19, eight patients from Mumbai became the first to be discharged in Maharashtra on Tuesday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) took to Twitter to share the good news and goodbyes are good. The civic body tweeted saying, “The happiest moment for all of us at @mybmc Kasturba Hospital! 2 of our once Corona +ve, recovered fully now, tested -ve twice consecutively. 8 are going home today.” The city-based couple, among the first from Mumbai to get infected, and six others were discharged from Kasturba Hospital on Tuesday evening. They were co-passengers of the Pune couple who had returned from Dubai and tested positive for the coronavirus on March 8.After reaching home, the couple first cleaned the flat. “We weren’t here for over two weeks, so the first thing we did was clean the flat,” said a 70-year-old man. In Mumbai, among those discharged is a three-year-old who had tested positive two days after her father was found positive upon return from the US. Her father remains admitted in Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital – his condition is now stated to be stable and he has been put off ventilator support
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