74 new Covid-19 cases on coast, 2 fatalities in Dakshina Kannada

Mangaluru/ Udupi: In a minor break from the seemingly rampant surge, fresh positive cases of Covid-19 in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada settled for a double digit, with the districts combining for 74 new cases. Udupi accounted for 40 of these new cases, taking the total number of such cases there to 1,362, and the 34 cases in DK pushed the total to 1,276.
DK also recorded two fresh fatalities to the pandemic, taking the toll to 25.“The two who succumbed to coronavirus include a 52-year old resident of Mangaluru, who was admitted to the ICU of district Wenlock Hospital on July 2 with co-morbid conditions that included high blood pressure, diabetes, pneumonia and heart ailment,” DK DC Sindhu B Rupesh, said, adding the other victim was a 62-year-old man, who died at a private hospital. He was admitted there on June 27.
The district health authorities also discharged 30 patients from Wenlock Hospital on the day that they also shifted six patients from the hospital ICU to the general ward after they responded to treatment. At present, 3 patients with co-morbid conditions are undergoing treatment at the ICU, the DC said, adding the district has seen the discharge of 584 patients so far, leaving 667 active cases for treatment at the hospital.
The DC gave the break-up of the fresh cases: 17 primary contacts, nine cases of influenza-like illness, one case each of severe acute respiratory infection, sample collected after surgery, pre-surgery sample (ruptured ectopic pregnancy, four pre-surgery samples before delivery and one a community random sample. The percentage of total positive cases against the district’s population of 20,86,649, as on date, stands at 0.06.
Udupi DC G Jagadeesha said the total positive cases in the district is 1,362. Of them, 1,154 have been discharged, leaving 205 active cases. With results of 1,640 swab samples awaited, the DC said the administration has set up 14 empowered teams to monitor different aspects of pandemic management in the district, including monitoring the arrival of patients at railway station, home quarantine and health of new mothers and their babies.