Coronavirus: 69-year-old man dies, Karnataka death toll mounts to 23


Davanagere, May 2 (IANS): A 69-year-old man from Davanagere succumbed to Covid-19, recording Karnataka's 23rd such death, an official said on Friday.

"Positive case 556, 69-year-old male from Davangere died on Friday at a designated hospital. He suffered a cardiac arrest," said a health official.

He was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), including past history of diabetes and Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD).


Representational image

He was on ventilator support when he died on Friday.

This is Karnataka's 23rd Covid death and Davangere's first.

 

  

Top Stories

Comment on this article

  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Sat, May 02 2020

    I think somewhere karnataka is failed during lockdown implementation and people are directly responsible for that..

    How suddenly new case crops up after long lock down and ends with death...

    Something seriously wrong with our approach

    DisAgree Agree [10] Reply Report Abuse

  • Shashidhar poonja, Mangalore

    Sat, May 02 2020

    Because all we did was lockdown and containment zones. People in the containment zones were not tested. By the time they found cases, it was in the later stage.

    DisAgree Agree [3] Reply Report Abuse

  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Sat, May 02 2020

    People don't trust that the authorities will take proper care of them, hence the lack of cooperation.

    DisAgree [1] Agree [4] Reply Report Abuse

  • KV Kamath, Mangalore

    Sat, May 02 2020

    If youths at home go out for stroll hoodwinking even the police, these types of cases spring up. Follow the rules laid by health ministry, every one is safe. Stay at home unless a situation warrants you to go out.

    DisAgree Agree [3] Reply Report Abuse


Leave a Comment

Title: Coronavirus: 69-year-old man dies, Karnataka death toll mounts to 23



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.