Coastal districts report minor spike in cases after Monday's fall

Mangaluru/Udupi: Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi saw a minor spike in Covid-19 cases, with 163 people testing positive on Tuesday against 131 on Monday. If DK accounted for 91 of these cases, Udupi accounted for the remaining 72 cases, to take their respective tallies of positive cases on Tuesday to 2,452 and 1,733. Three Covid related deaths in DK took the total pandemic linked fatalities in DK to 53 against five in Udupi.

The general trend of people with co-morbidities succumbing continued unabated, with deaths of a 65-year-old woman from Sakleshpur in Hassan suffering from hypertension and asthma, 55-year-old man from Kundapura diagnosed with severe acute respiratory infection ( SARI ) from Kundapura in Udupi and 70-year-old from Mangaluru with respiratory distress syndrome and hypertension passing away on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

The 131 cases in DK included 35 whose source of infection is being traced, 29 diagnosed with influenza-like illness ( ILI ), 20 are primary contacts, five diagnosed with SARI and one case each of international travel history and pre-surgery sample, respectively, said DK deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh. The discharge of 47 patients from the designated Covid-19 hospital and private hospitals took the total number of those discharged to 945, and active cases to 1,414 in DK.

The discharge of 80 patients in Udupi exceeded its fresh reported positive cases of 72, 48 of whom were primary contacts, 14 diagnosed as those with ILI, one a case of SARI, seven with travel history to Bengaluru and two to Mangaluru, said district health and family welfare officer Sudhir Chandra Sooda. Active cases in Udupi are now at 370 and 1,360 patients have recovered thus far, stated Udupi DC G Jagadeesha in the bulletin.