Davanagere: ‘
Green zone’
Davanagere has now jumped to the ‘
Red Zone’ with eight fresh cases being reported in the past three days. On Friday, six patients in the district tested
positive for
novel coronavirus, among whom five were primary contacts of a 69-year-old man who was confirmed infected on Thursday. In addition to the five primary contacts, the sixth patient who was confirmed infected was the 16-year-old son of the 35-year-old
staff nurse at a
Davanagere primary health centre, who was the first to test positive for
Covid-19 since the district’s classification under ‘green zone’.
The total tally in the district has now jumped to 10, of whom eight are currently undergoing treatment. tnn