India, March 19 -- A woman in her mid-forties who was hospitalised with a coronavirus infection in Kolkata will be released soon, hospital authorities informed Kolkata Municipal Corporation's health department.

The patient has no immediate history of travelling outside the country. For the past two weeks, she has been suffering from fever, cough and cold. On being tested recently, she was diagnosed with human coronavirus HKU1, also called Betacoronavirus hongkonense.

"The patient was admitted, diagnosed and treated at the hospital. She is stable and presumably discharged soon," a senior official of KMC health department told this correspondent March 18, 2025.

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