This story is from June 30, 2020

Hassan records third Covid casualty

A 60-year-old woman, who died on June 26, tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
Hassan records third Covid casualty
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HASSAN : A 60-year-old woman, who died on June 26, tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
Hers is the third Covid fatality in the district. She was cremated without following the Covid SOP as her relatives were unaware that she was infected. The part of village in Channarayapatna taluk has been sealed down, and 62 persons who had attended the funeral have been considered primary contacts.

She was considered as Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) patient, said Channarayapatna tahsildar Maruti. The woman had diabetes and hypertension, and she was being treated for fever at a private hospital in the taluk.
On June 25, the taluk health officers collected her nasal and throat swab samples. But she died the following day. After the reports suggested that she was infected, the officers sealed a part of the village declaring it a containment zone, and home-quarantined the villagers.
Sixty-two of her relatives, including the family members, who had attended the funeral have been quarantined, and their swab samples are being collected.
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