Covid-19: Dakshina Kannada records a birth, a death and 8 positive cases

MANGALURU: A death of a 70-year-old, a covid-19 positive woman giving birth to a male child at district Wenlock Hospital, designated Covid-19 hospital for Dakshina Kannada and 19 people testing positive for coronavirus characterised how the coastal districts of DK and Udupi fared on the global pandemic front on Tuesday. Incidentally, Udupi accounted for 11 of the positive cases to be reported while DK recorded its 9th death since the outbreak.
While efforts are on to trace how P-9594 contracted the disease, one patient was contact of P-2047 and five were returnees from Maharashtra, two from Kuwait and one from Saudi Arabia respectively, state health bulletin stated with reference to 11 cases reported in Udupi. Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said district now reported 1088 cases out of which 978 have been discharged and the district presently is left with 108 active cases.
The 70-year-old male (P-6282) was admitted to district Wenlock Hospital with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), breathlessness, fever, and body ache. Suffering from diabetes as well, the patient who was a chronic smoker died on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment on the ventilator in the ICU, Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, said. The district presently has one patient (P-9029) who is in the ICU.
The gloom of the death and 8 more testing positive during the day was lifted with a pregnant woman patient undergoing a normal delivery in the early hours. DHO Ramachandra Bairy said this is the second instance of a pregnant woman delivering a child at Wenlock Hospital. In a recent instance, a 38-year-old woman had undergone a caesarean operation. The mother and the infant were discharged during the day after both tested negative for the virus.
Four of the eight cases are primary contacts of P-8318, two have been diagnosed with SARI, while one is a Kuwait returnee and the last one diagnosed with influenza like illness (ILI). Five other patients were also discharged during the day, Sindhu said. The district that has recorded 443 positive cases till date presently has 188 active cases and 256 patients have been discharged as on date. Reports of 179 swab samples are awaited, DC added.