A birth, a death and 19 +ve cases on coast

Mangaluru: The death of a 70-year-old, a Covid-19 patient giving birth to a baby boy at Wenlock Hospital, and 19 people testing positive for the novel coronavirus characterised how the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi fared on the pandemic front on Tuesday. Incidentally, Udupi accounted for 11 of the positive cases reported, while Dakshina Kannada recorded its ninth death since the outbreak.
While efforts are on to trace how P-9594 contracted the disease, one patient was a contact of P-2047, and five were returnees from Maharashtra, two from Kuwait and one from Saudi Arabia, the state health bulletin stated with reference to 11 cases reported in Udupi. Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said that the district now reported 1,088 cases, out of which 978 patients have been discharged, and the district presently is left with 108 active cases.
The 70-year-old patient designated P-6282 was admitted to Wenlock Hospital with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), breathlessness, fever and body ache. Suffering from diabetes as well, the patient who was a heavy smoker, died on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment on the ventilator in the ICU, said Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh. The district presently has one patient, designated P-9029, who is in the ICU.
The gloom of the death and 8 more patients testing positive during the day, was lifted with a pregnant woman patient having a normal delivery in the early hours. DHO Ramachandra Bairy said this is the second instance of a pregnant woman patient 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, the DC added.