14th Covid-19 fatality in Dakshina Kannada district

Mangaluru/Udupi: On a day, the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi recorded 50 fresh Covid-19 cases, with Udupi accounting for 18 of them, DK recorded its fourth fatality.
The fourth victim and 14th overall in DK was a 49-year-old woman, suffering from related co-morbidities. She was admitted to the ICU in district Wenlock Hospital, the designated Covid-19 hospital on Sunday and passed away early on Monday.
Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said out of the 32 cases reported on Monday, one is an inter-state traveller, nine are cases with influenza like illness (ILI), six diagnosed with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and contacts of how five others tested positive is being traced.Ten others found infected are primary contacts of eight previously infected patients and one is a secondary contact, she said.
The fresh cases took the number of active cases in DK to 265 and total positive cases to 695. The health authorities as on date have tested 13,292 samples out of which 12,587 have turned up negative and 705 positive including 10 cases from other districts. The district health authorities also discharged four patients during the day taking total number of those discharged to 426. Reports of 148 samples are awaited, the deputy commissioner, said.
In Udupi, the 18 fresh cases took the active cases to 139 and total positive cases to 1197, Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said. The health authorities have discharged 1,056 patients post treatment thus far, he said. The district presently has 801 people in home quarantine. The DC also released a list of dos and don'ts and activities permitted in containment and non-containment zones to keep a tab on the pandemic that is spreading fast.