Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (AM)
Mangaluru, May 5: One person tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, May 5. The last positive case in Dakshina Kannada was detected three days ago on Friday.
The patient who tested positive today is a 51-year-old man, a resident of Boloor.
He is said to have contracted the infection from a 58-year-old woman from Boloor here who had contracted the virus while being treated at First Neuro Hospital in the city a few days back.
Following the detection of coronavirus-positive case of the woman in Boloor on April 30, the district administration had declared specific area of Boloor village in the taluk as a containment zone.
So far the coronavirus positive cases in Dakshina Kannada district have increased to 25. Out of this 12 people have got discharged, three have died and 10 people are under treatment.