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Daijiworld Media Network - Bhatkal
Bhatkal, May 10: Seven more cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Bhatkal on Sunday May 10. All of them are linked to Mangaluru's First Neuro Hospital.
All the new cases are connected to patient P-659, an 18-year-old also from Bhatkal, who had earlier visited First Neuro Hospital.
Among the seven new patients, three are primary contacts of P-659 and four are secondary contacts. The patients are five males aged 15, 16, 42, 31 and 60, and two females aged 21 and 50.
With this, the total number of cases in Bhatkal has risen to 38. The infected people who tested positive on Saturday May 9 include one-and-a-half-year-old baby, two-and-a-half-year-old toddler, two girls aged 17 and 23, and two elderly men aged 65 and 68 and a 50-year-old woman.
On Friday May 8, as many as 12 people of the city had tested positive for coronavirus. Strict measures have been taken in Bhatkal to control the spread of the virus.
Elder sister and brother-in-law of the infected 18-year-old woman of Bhatkal had gone to Mangaluru on April 19 as their child was not well. They stayed in the house of a known person, got the child treated on April 20 and had returned back to Bhatkal. So the 18-year-old woman, who was in contact with them, acquired the infection.
On Sunday, a total of 53 news were reported in Karnataka, taking the total cases so far to 847. Belagavi alone accounted for 22 fresh cases. Shivamogga, which was designated as green zone until now, saw a spurt of eight cases, all of them reportedly Tablighi Jamaatis with travel history to Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Bagalkote also reported eight new cases with travel history to Ajmer in Rajasthan. Bengaluru reported three cases, Kalaburagi three, and Davangere and Chikkaballapura one each. The total number of deaths in the case rose to 31, after the report of a 56-year-old woman from Bengaluru Urban who passed away on May 7 confirmed on May 9 that she had contracted coronavirus.
One case from Bengaluru Urban and another from Afzalpura in Kalaburagi are suffering from Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and SARI, respectively.
According to Karnataka Covid Dashboard information portal, eight districts -- Yadagiri, Raichur, Koppal, Chikkamagaluru, Hassan, Chamarajanagar, Ramanagara and Kolar -- are untouched by Covid-19.
Karnataka's green zones with 1-5 cases include Gadag (5), Haveri (2), Udupi (4), Kodagu (1) and Bengaluru Rural (3). Orange zones, places with 5-15 cases, include Dharwad (12), Bellary (15), Shivamogga (8), Chitradurga (7) and Tumkur, 11.
Red zones with more than 15 cases comprise Bidar (26), Kalaburagi (71), Bijapur (48), Bagalkote (59), Belgaum (107), Uttara Kannada (39), Davangere (68), Dakshina Kannada (29), Mysuru (89), Mandya (28), Bengaluru Urban (192) and Chikkaballapura (23).
Of the 847 cases, 14 per cent are senior citizens, 64 per cent men and 36 per cent women. The state has a discharge rate of 48 per cent.
Total active cases in Belagavi are 68, Bengaluru Urban (81), Bagalkote (40), Uttara Kannada (28), Kalaburagi (33), Chikkaballapura (5) and Davangere (62).
With inputs from IANS