Four cops among 77 confirmed infected in Udupi, Dakshina Kannada

Udupi/ Mangaluru: The coastal districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada saw biggest spike of Covid-19 patients with 77 fresh cases being reported in 24 hours ending 5pm on Monday. This was on a day that Karnataka recorded 187 fresh cases.

While Udupi accounted for 73, including four policemen, including a DSP, Dakshina Kannada recorded four, taking the total number of the active cases in Udupi to 195, and Dakshina Kannada to 74.

Udupi DC G Jagadeesha said 68 of the 73 cases have been detected and shifted to TMA Pai Hospital. “We were not able to trace five people as their cellphones are switched of,” the DC said, adding they will also be traced and shifted to the hospital. “Four of those tested positive are policemen, and they have been shifted to the Covid-19 hospital for treatment,” he added.

Three of those tested positive had returned to the district from Dubai, the DC said, adding the rest are those returned from Maharashtra.

On the other hand, DK recorded four new cases. While one of them, a 45-year-old woman from Belthangady, has Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), the other is a 24-year-old youth who had returned from Bahrain in February, and wanted to return there. He approached a private lab for a test, that confirmed him to be positive. Steps have been taken to ascertain his primary and secondary contacts, said DC Sindhu B Rupesh.