Lucknow (IANS): A two-and-a-half-year-old son of a female doctor from Toronto, Canada, who was the first COVID-19 positive patient in Lucknow, has now tested positive for the deadly virus.

It is the first case in the state capital where a child has tested positive.

The child has been admitted to the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) here.

The woman doctor, who arrived in Lucknow on March 8, had tested positive but recovered and was discharged from the KGMU.

Though her husband tested negative, her in-laws also tested positive and are now under treatment at the Civil Hospital. The family has now been come to be known as the ‘corona family’ among many city residents.