Karnataka: Udupi 'reclaims' peak of Karnataka Covid-19 graph with 92 cases

MANGALURU/UDUPI: A day after it ceded numero uno position on Karnataka Covid-19 graph to Kalaburagi, Udupi accelerated to the top with 92 fresh cases reported on June 4.
Languishing in 5th place at the start of this month, fresh 377 cases reported in the last 96-hours has sent this district to the top on a list that the district administration would not have envisaged being seen on at the beginning of May when it was one among the green zone districts.
G Jagadeesha, DC, Udupi said all 92 cases reported are those who returned from Maharashtra and include 78 men, 13 women and a child taking total positive cases to 564. “One of the patients is from DK district and will be referred to authorities there for treatment,” he said. Udupi has discharged 82 patients so far. Asymptomatic patients without any disease conditions for 3 days will be discharged after 7-days if tested negative, he said.
Dr Sudhirchandra Sooda, district health and family welfare officer, Udupi told TOI that barring 5 symptomatic patients, rest have been admitted to taluk Covid care centres in Kundapura and Karkala. Only symptomatic patients deemed vulnerable are being shifted to TMA Pai Hospital, the designated Covid19 hospital for the district. The district is awaiting test reports of 1732 people, he said adding Udupi presently has 454 active cases.
Dakshina Kannada district on the other hand that discharged 3 patients from district Wenlock Hospital, designated Covid19 hospital, recorded 4 positive cases. While one is a woman who returned from Dubai on June 1, other three are those who returned from Mumbai via Karkala after undergoing quarantine there. Their test reports came out positive and have been admitted to Wenlock Hospital, DK deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, said.
DC also appealed to all concerned to examine people coming to their premises for quarantine seal on the back of their hands and report any such person to the police control room on 100. To a confusion about people from Mumbai who alighted at the railway station in the wee hours of Thursday and later during the day being allowed to go straight to their homes, DC said such people were identified and sent to institutional quarantine facility at NIT-K.