2 senior citizens who tested +ve 7 times, discharged

Mangaluru: On a day that the two coastal districts recorded 17 Covid-19 cases, Udupi accounting for 13 of them, the Dakshina Kannada district health authorities, among 15 others, discharged two senior citizens who had tested positive for the disease seven times since their admission to the designated Covid-19 hospital here in mid-May. One is an 81-year-old man, who was admitted to the hospital on May 12, and the other is a 76-year-old man, who was admitted on May 20.
District health and family welfare officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy said that the patients designated P-1006 and P-1476 were discharged by the Covid-19 technical advisory committee, Bengaluru. Both these senior citizens will be subjected to robust home quarantine, Dr Bairy said, adding that since they are asymptomatic, chances of onward transmission from them to the community is nil. “We will continue to monitor their health in their respective residences,” he said.
Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said the 13 positive cases that pushed the total positive cases to 1,063, included a primary contact of P-5451, another patient whose source from where he contracted the disease from is being traced, a person who came to Udupi from Bengaluru, and the rest of them are Maharashtra returnees. The district presently has 102 active cases, and 959 patients have been discharged thus far. The DC warned that people violating the Covid-19 directives of the government will be dealt with strictly.
The four cases reported in Dakshina Kannada included a returnee each from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on June 11 and 17, respectively, one from Maharashtra on June 9, and one of them was a primary contact of the patient designated P-8005. Two patients are still being treated in the ICU, said DC Sindhu B Rupesh. The total Covid-19 cases in Dakshina Kannada with the day’s tally is 416, and active cases stands at 197. In all, 221 patients have been discharged and samples of 56 people are awaited, she said.