5 discharged from navy hospital in Karwar

TNN | Apr 15, 2020, 04:27 IST

Karwar: Five Covid-19 patients were discharged from the INHS Patanjali Hospital in Karwar on Tuesday. With this, only one coronavirus patient remains at the navy hospital. Deputy commissioner Harish Kumar K said the lone patient will recover soon.
Of the nine patients admitted to INHS Patanjali, two were discharged four days ago. A pregnant woman admitted here was later shifted to Manipal. All the nine are residents of Bhatkal and some of them had returned from the Gulf countries. The discharged patients will be kept under observation for another 14 days.
There has been no new case of Covid-19 in Uttara Kannada. Harish warned people against venturing out of the district. He said those who return after visiting other districts will be kept under compulsory 14-day quarantine.
“Uttara Kannada is under red alert and whoever comes from other districts will have to report to the nearest fever centre. Quarantine seal will be put on the hands of such persons and kept in 14-day compulsory quarantine,” he said. Those who do not agree for home quarantine will have to stay in government centres, he said.
The DC said that health workers visited 3,35,033 houses in the district and checked 15,26,177 people. Of them, only 1,059 people had fever and 357 had fever with cold and cough. “All these people are under observation,” he said.
The result of the survey has been compared with the data during the past three years and the cases of fever has sharply declined owing to quarantine, the DC said.