Karnataka: Dakshina Kannada registers record spike of 183 fresh Covid-19 cases, Udupi 31

MANGALURU: A record 183 fresh Covid-19 positive cases in Dakshina Kannada district that included 63 primary contacts and 54 whose source of coronavirus infection is being traced and 31 positive cases in Udupi saw the coastal districts record 214 cases on Wednesday. DK also recorded two more deaths to the pandemic – both patients with co-morbid conditions taking the total death toll in the district to 28. Udupi has recorded 3 Covid19 deaths.
The fresh spike saw total positive cases in DK shoot up to 1,542 and active cases to 819.The discharge of 12 patients on the day meant that DK as on date has seen 695 people successfully overcome the virus. The spike also meant that the positivity rate, that is the percentage of positive cases to the total population now stood at 0.07. Health authorities as on date have received 22,181 samples and 20,153 out of 21,695 samples tested have turned out negative.
The gunman assigned to former minister U T Khader tested positive on the day and three others who were with him in the escort vehicle have been quarantined, Vikash Kumar Vikash, city police commissioner, said. A section of police commissioner’s office was shut for sanitization as per protocol after staff working there were treated as primary contacts. The office per se has not been sealed contrary to ‘reports’ doing rounds in social media, he said.
Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said the district reported two deaths – one late on Tuesday and the other during the day with the victims being a 57-year-old man and 32-year-old youth. Two of the 183 cases were secondary contacts, 25 were cases of influenza like illness, four cases of SARI, one case of inter district travel, two with interstate travel, five with international travel history, 22 random samples and five pre-surgery samples.
On a day Kota Shrinivas Poojari, minister for fisheries inaugurated the Covid19 lab at district hospital in Udupi, the district recorded 31 new cases taking the total positive cases recorded as on date to 1421. Discharge of 1189 patients meant that Udupi presently has 229 active cases. Karkala MLA Sunil Kumar inaugurated the ambulance monitoring system to ensure expeditious transfer of positive patients to designated treatment centres on this occasion.