Eight-year-old boy, retd cop among nine new cases in Belagavi

TNN | Apr 26, 2020, 04:07 IST

Belagavi: Of the nine residents of Belagavi who tested positive for novel coronavirus on Saturday, one was an anganwadi worker and another a retired cop. The addition of nine more cases to the list of infected patients in the district has pushed Belagavi’s Covid-19 tally to a worrying 54.
An eight-year-old boy was among those who tested positive for the infection on Saturday. This comes on the back of two children being confirmed with the infection on Friday. The prevalence of the infection among kids is among the aspects of the infection that has the medical community in India flummoxed.
Half of the cases in Belagavi – 27 – have been reported in the Hirebagewadi cluster. On the anganwadi worker and the retired policeman contracting the infection, Belagavi district health officer (DHO) Shashikant Muniyal told STOI that they were secondary contacts of an infected patient.
On the other hand, the two children who tested positive for virus on Friday – a 10-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy – in Raibagh taluk in the district had both been in contact with two different infected patients.
The number of active cases in the district now stands at 49, with four having recovered from the infection and one of them having succumbed to it. In all, there are seven containment zones across the district, while the 49 patients are being treated in quarantine.