Dakshina Kannada, Udupi report 163 fresh cases of coronavirus

MANGALURU/UDUPI: Coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi saw a minor spike in fresh coronavirus cases with 163 reported on Tuesday against 131 on Monday. If Dakshina Kannada accounted for 91 of these cases, Udupi accounted for the remaining 72 cases to take their respective tally of positive cases as on date to 2452 and 1733, respectively.
Three Covid related deaths in DK took the total fatalities due to the pandemic in the district to 53 against five in Udupi.
The general trend of people with comorbidities succumbing continued unabated with deaths of a 65-year-old woman from Sakleshpur in Hassan suffering from hypertension and asthma, 55-year-old male from Kundapura diagnosed with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) from Kundapura in Udupi and 70-year-old from Mangaluru with respiratory distress syndrome and hypertension passing away on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
The 131 cases in DK included 35 whose source of infection is being traced, 29 diagnosed with influenza like illness (ILI), 20 are primary contacts, five diagnosed with SARI and one case each of international travel history and pre-surgery sample respectively, Sindhu B Rupesh, DK deputy commissioner, said. Discharge of 47 patients from designated Covid19 and private hospitals took the total number of those discharged to 945 and active cases to 1414.
Discharge of 80 patients in Udupi exceeded its fresh reported positive cases of 72, 48 of whom were primary contacts, 14 diagnosed as those with ILI, one a case of SARI, seven with travel history to Bengaluru and two to Mangaluru respectively, district health and family welfare officer Dr Sudhir Chandra Sooda said. Active cases in Udupi now are 370 and 1360 have recovered thus far, deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha, said in a bulletin.