MANGALURU: Covid-19 death rate doubled in Dakshina Kannada district within 96-hours with a 75-year-old woman succumbing to the virus at the district Wenlock Hospital, the designated Covid hospital on Thursday. Related to P390, the first Covid-19 victim of DK district who died on Sunday, this septuagenarian, incidentally had tested positive earlier in the day, and passed away during the day in the same circumstances in which her daughter-in-law died.
Under treatment for stroke at First Neuro Specialty at Padil on the city outskirts since March 18, the septuagenarian was admitted to the ICU of Wenlock hospital with severe breathing issues on April 22. Her throat swab reports sent for test came out positive during the day and doctors pronounced her dead later. The district administration has already declared a 100-metre radius around First Neuro Specialty a containment zone and declared it a supervised isolation centre.
With the day’s development, the district has recorded a total of 17 positive cases. While 12 of these Covid-19 patients have been discharged, three of them are undergoing treatment. Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh in the official district bulletin stated there is no change in the health status of P-409, neighbour of P390 who is on ventilator in the ICU of Wenlock Hospital. She was the 16th positive case that the district recorded on Tuesday.
The district administration has already sealed down entire Kasba village in Bantwal town and taluk from where P390 hailed following her death on Sunday and declared it a containment zone. The administration as on Thursday has also shifted 50 people from the containment zone including 1 more during the day to the isolation facility set up at National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NITK) campus at Srinivasnagar, some 23-kms from here.
Under treatment for stroke at First Neuro Specialty at Padil on the city outskirts since March 18, the septuagenarian was admitted to the ICU of Wenlock hospital with severe breathing issues on April 22. Her throat swab reports sent for test came out positive during the day and doctors pronounced her dead later. The district administration has already declared a 100-metre radius around First Neuro Specialty a containment zone and declared it a supervised isolation centre.
With the day’s development, the district has recorded a total of 17 positive cases. While 12 of these Covid-19 patients have been discharged, three of them are undergoing treatment. Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh in the official district bulletin stated there is no change in the health status of P-409, neighbour of P390 who is on ventilator in the ICU of Wenlock Hospital. She was the 16th positive case that the district recorded on Tuesday.
The district administration has already sealed down entire Kasba village in Bantwal town and taluk from where P390 hailed following her death on Sunday and declared it a containment zone. The administration as on Thursday has also shifted 50 people from the containment zone including 1 more during the day to the isolation facility set up at National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NITK) campus at Srinivasnagar, some 23-kms from here.
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