D’gere has 12 more new cases

TNN | May 6, 2020, 04:41 IST

Davanagere: As many as 12 new Covid- 19 cases were confirmed from Davanagere city alone on Tuesday taking the number of cases to 44 with three deaths and two patients who recovered.
Interestingly, five of these patients who tested positive on were contacts of P 556, a 69- year- old man from Jalinagar area in Davanagere who died on on May 1.
Besides, seven other confirmed cases were contacts of P 581, a 3 -year-old woman, residing in Jalinagar.
Containment zone : KTJ Nagar where P 665 lives is a new containment zone, in addition to other four containment zones which include: Jagaligar, Bhashanagar, Imam Nagar, Bethur road.
Meanwhile, there were public announcements by villagers of Chatnihalli in Harapanahalli taluk asking residents not to go to Davanagere city or allow anyone from Davanagere city' to their villages, in view of the sike in Covid- 19 cases.