Three test positive in Kalaburagi; one more in Dharwad

DHARWAD/KALABURAGI: Thursday saw three more cases of Covid-19 reported in Kalaburagi and one in Dharwad.
A 35-year-old resident of Kolikere, near Navalur Agasi of Hosayallapur area in Dharwad, tested positive, taking the tally to two in the city and 12 in the district.
The administration immediately took steps to make Kolikere a containment zone again. A person from the same locality had tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from Perth in Australia and discharged after recovering from the disease.
The man who tested positive on Thursday is designated as P-705. A chilli trader, he also drives autorickshaw. He has no travel history and had approached the district civil hospital after developing Influenza Like Illness (ILI). After a few days there, he spent eight hours in a private hospital in Saptapur. Doctors referred him to KIMS where he was admitted on May 1. He was operated there for peritonitis by three doctors. Two nurses and a ward boy were also present in the operation theatre.
Sources said after he tested positive, 13 doctors, two nurses and a ward boy were quarantined. The operation theatre has been disinfected and sealed.
P-705 had come in contact with 28 people, including two of family members. All of them have been quarantined. The district administration is tracing his primary and secondary contacts.
Three more positive took the tally to 67 in Kalaburagi on Thursday. Six people have died and 29 recovered, leaving 32 active cases of Covid-19 in the district.
The three fresh cases include a 35-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and 41-year-old man. The 35-year-old man (P-697), is a resident of Qamar Colony who had come in direct contact with P-642. The 36-year-old woman (P-698) and 41-year-old man (P-699) are residents of Mominpur who came in contact with P-641.