A 73-year-old man with comorbidities, who had also tested positive for the H3N2 virus, died on Thursday in a civic-run hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial town in Pune district of Maharashtra, health officials from the local municipal corporation said.

The patient was admitted to the civic-run hospital on March 7, said the officials from the Pimpri- Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). The elderly person had other comorbidities along with the H3N2 virus, they said.