Covid-19 cases breach 10,000-mark in Udupi

Mangaluru/Udupi: The coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Monday reported six lesser cases compared to the day earlier. While DK accounted for 201 of the 304 cases. Udupi accounted for the remaining 103. The mini spikes in cases in the last 48 hours meant that while DK crossed the 10,000 cases mark on Saturday, Udupi did so on Monday. DK with total positive cases of 10,531 is 295 more than its neighbour.
While the source of 72 new cases in DK is under investigation, 70 patients were diagnosed with influenza like illness (ILI), 49 were primary contacts and nine patients had severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). A domestic traveller too tested positive for the coronavirus. In all, 63% or 128 of the new cases, including 88 men were asymptomatic in nature, DC KV Rajendra. Mangaluru taluk accounted for 144 of the new cases in DK.
The active cases in DK is now 2,297. Six more Covid related deaths including three from Mangaluru, two from Bantwal and one from outside DK saw the overall death tally climb to 316.Dr Rajendra, who earlier in the day visited the designated Covid-19 hospital and oversaw process for installation of ventilators there.
Udupi which recorded five deaths including three from Karakala and two from Udupi, taking total deaths to 89, discharged more patients than fresh reported cases at 156. With this, the number of those discharged post-treatment in Udupi is 7,557 and active cases is 2,590. Fifty-two of the new cases were primary contacts, 23 had ILI, two SARI, source of infection in 25 is being traced and one was reported in a domestic traveller.