KANNUR: A 14-year-old Kannur boy, who was Covid positive in the first test, turned negative in the second test. The doctor who treated the boy as well as his father also turned negative during the tests.

The father was tested under the presumption that the child might have contracted disease from him. The 14-year-old is one of the patients whose source of infection is yet to be found out.

Kannur city was shut down after the boy’s case emerged.

Meanwhile, the wife of an Excise driver has come out with a complaint even as investigation is going on into his death. The driver had died two days after his disease was confirmed. The investigation is going on into the treatment given to him.

The family had released the phone recording of the Excise driver speaking to his family, saying that he was not receiving proper treatment from hospital but, this was dismissed by Pariyaram Medical College.