All patients are asymptomatic in Mysuru

Lawrence Milton | TNN | Apr 22, 2020, 04:47 IST

Mysuru: Mysuru may be on top of the list in the number of active covid cases (55) in Karnataka, but almost everyone barring two senior citizens admitted with complaints of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) are asymptomatic. This has raised serious concern among health authorities.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, two more persons tested positive to virus. The two are secondary contacts of the first employee of Jubilant Life Sciences in Nanjangud who tested positive on March 26. The two are aged 26 years and are asymptomatic.
During the day, seven more persons were cured and were discharged from the hospital.
The total number of people tested positive in the district is 86, out of which 31 had been cured and discharged. The rest 55 are under observation at the covid hospital. Surprisingly, all these patients are asymptomatic. A 72-year-old man and a 65-year-old villager who developed infection following respiratory infections are on oxygen support. As both are senior citizens, officials are not taking any chances.
Director and dean of Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute C P Nanjaraj told TOI that except two aged patients having respiratory problem, the rest are asymptomatic and doing well. Even the health of these two patients is stable but they’re being given oxygen as a precautionary measure.
After Mysuru, Belagavi is the second highest with 39 active cases followed by Bengaluru (37), Vijayapura (33) and Kalaburagi (23), Bagalkot (18) and Bidar (15), Ballari (13) and Mandya (12)
Mysuru’s figure went up because of the single largest cluster case in Nanjangud wherein employees of the pharmaceutical firm and their contacts have the highest infection with 44 active cases. The rest are related to Tablighi Jamaat visitors (7), one Dubai-returned contact and three related to SARI.
Meanwhile, officials have launched door-to-door surveillance to carry out random covid test on people with influenza-like illness to rule out infection at community level. Two SARI cases have become causes of concern for officials as they fear the situation may turn worse in the coming days if people do not cooperate with health and district authorities in containing the deadly pandemic.