Karnataka: 14 more contacts of two super spreaders test positive

DAVANAGERE: The coronavirus count touched 61 in Davanagere with 14 more testing positive for the virus on Friday. Five of them are children between 3 and 13 years.
Ten of Friday's cases were contacts of P- 553, a 35-year-old nurse attached to Bhashanagar PHC in Davanagere, four others were contacts of P-556, a 69-year-old man from Jalinagar, who recently died in a Covid hospital here. Fifty-five are under treatment in the Covid-19 ward of Davanagere district hospital, said a senior health officer.
But for the two initial cases reported in early April which had a travel history, the remaining 59 are all contacts of either P- 553 and P-556.
6TH CONTAINMENT ZONE FORMED: Following the confirmation of P 695, a 53-year-old woman from SPS Nagar, on Thursday, SPS Nagar area has been demarcated as the sixth containment zone in Davanagere from Thursday evening. A health check up followed by throat swab collection of the suspected people from all these six containment zones in under way, said DC Mahantesh Bilagi.