MANGALURU/UDUPI: Covid-19 continued its bull run in the coastal districts with 346 fresh cases, including 237 in Dakshina Kannada (DK) and 109 in Udupi, being reported on Saturday. Statistically, the day also brought more morose news with seven fatalities in erstwhile undivided DK district, including four in DK and 3 in Udupi, leaving them with 1,848 and 492 active cases, respectively. Udupi crossed the 2,000 positive cases mark with 2,008 total cases.
The Dakshina Kannada district administration reserved its judgment on the death of a two-month old infant that tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said that the district expert committee will go verify the infant’s case sheet after its parents tested negative. Nonetheless, the authorities followed full Covid protocol in interning the infant at Nandigudda crematorium. If confirmed, it will be the youngest victim of the pandemic.
The four patients—three women and a man—aged between 49 and 74, who died in DK since Friday, included three patients from Mangaluru taluk and one from Puttur taluk. All of them had comorbidities, Sindhu said. The district health authorities discharged 109 patient’s after they were treated, taking the total numbers of those discharged to 1,387 in DK. The numbers of patients placed in home isolation and at Covid care centres too is around 600, she said.
A total 13 post offices, including the head post office at Pandeshwar and post offices at Hampankatta, Ashoknagar, Gandhinagar, Boloor, Kulur, Konchady, Kavoor, Bejai, Kodailbail, Falnir, Fisheries College and Mangaluru Collectorate will be closed for sanitisation on July 20. Sriharsha N, senior superintendent of post offices, Mangaluru, said the step has been taken after two department staff on cash duty tested positive.
Dr Sudhir Chandra Sooda, Udupi district health and family welfare officer, said the three patients who died on the day included a 20-year-old blood cancer patient who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The other two patients had related comorbidities, he said. The district had recorded two deaths on Friday, Dr Sooda said. The health authorities in the district, as on Saturday, have discharged 1,586 patients, stated DC G Jagadeesha in the district bulletin issued by his office.
The Dakshina Kannada district administration reserved its judgment on the death of a two-month old infant that tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said that the district expert committee will go verify the infant’s case sheet after its parents tested negative. Nonetheless, the authorities followed full Covid protocol in interning the infant at Nandigudda crematorium. If confirmed, it will be the youngest victim of the pandemic.
The four patients—three women and a man—aged between 49 and 74, who died in DK since Friday, included three patients from Mangaluru taluk and one from Puttur taluk. All of them had comorbidities, Sindhu said. The district health authorities discharged 109 patient’s after they were treated, taking the total numbers of those discharged to 1,387 in DK. The numbers of patients placed in home isolation and at Covid care centres too is around 600, she said.
A total 13 post offices, including the head post office at Pandeshwar and post offices at Hampankatta, Ashoknagar, Gandhinagar, Boloor, Kulur, Konchady, Kavoor, Bejai, Kodailbail, Falnir, Fisheries College and Mangaluru Collectorate will be closed for sanitisation on July 20. Sriharsha N, senior superintendent of post offices, Mangaluru, said the step has been taken after two department staff on cash duty tested positive.
Dr Sudhir Chandra Sooda, Udupi district health and family welfare officer, said the three patients who died on the day included a 20-year-old blood cancer patient who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The other two patients had related comorbidities, he said. The district had recorded two deaths on Friday, Dr Sooda said. The health authorities in the district, as on Saturday, have discharged 1,586 patients, stated DC G Jagadeesha in the district bulletin issued by his office.
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