Elderly Gadag woman is 6th Karnataka fatality; total cases 197

BENGALURU: Three days after she tested positive for Covid-19, an 80-year-old woman from Gadag died on Thursday. She is Karnataka's sixth Covid-19 fatality, coming two days after its fifth - a 65-year-old man from Kalaburagi.
Sixteen fresh infections were reported on Thursday afternoon, taking the total number of infected people in Karnataka to 197.
This is the second time that the state has reported 16 cases in a 24-hour span.Three of them were children - aged 4, 9 and 13 - all related to a 41-year-old woman from Bagalkot who tested positive.
Six of the patients are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi in March - three attended the meeting while three are contacts of delegates who have tested positive.
Five fresh cases reported from Bengaluru
Two of the Tablighi Jamaat participants — a 27-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman — are from Bengaluru; the third, a 27-year-old, is from Dharwad. With this, 40 TJ participants have tested positive in Karnataka. The Gadag woman was the only one to test positive from the district. With no recent travel history, she was tested after she developed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection. Test results confirmed Covid-19 on April 6. She also suffered from low blood pressure and the immediate cause of death was cardiac arrest, said officials. Thursday’s fresh cases comprised five patients from Bengaluru, three each from Bagalkot and Belagavi, two from Mysuru and one each from Dharwad, Mandya and Chikkaballapur. The TJ contacts who tested positive include three of a family from Belagavi — the mother (40), father (50) and brother (27) of a delegate who was confirmed infected on April 3. The entire family is now infected.
The other three contacts were from Bengaluru, men aged 27, 42 and 66, with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). The 66-year-old had travelled from Manipur to Bengaluru on March 12.