Bengaluru: Seven new positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of affected in the state to 98, the Health department said on Tuesday.
"Till date 98 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed; this includes 3 deaths and 6 discharges," the department said in a bulletin.
A 52-year old man, and 48 and 26 year-old women, who are residents of Hosapete in Ballari district, with a travel history to Bengaluru have been tested positive for COVID-19.
Detailed investigation is on to find out they were infected by the virus, the department said.
Sharing information about these three persons from Hosapete infected by the virus, Health Minister B Sriramulu on Monday night had said, they are from the same family.
The seven new cases include a 40-year-old man, who is resident of Bengaluru and contact of person already tested positive undergoing treatment and a 19-year old, who is a resident of the city, with a travel history to New York.
Two men aged 35 and 41 years from Mysuru, who are contacts of a patient who already tested positive, have also been confirmed for the infection.
A 40-year old woman, resident of Gowribidanur in Chikkaballapur, a 34-year old man, resident of Dakshina Kannada, with a travel history to Dubai, and a 26-year old man, resident of Batkal in Uttara Kannada, also with travel history to Dubai have tested positive.
Meanwhile, the Commissionerate, Health & Family Welfare Services in efforts to contain COVID-19, has instructed all the private Hospitals to mandatorily report all Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) cases admitted under them to the District Surveillance Officer.
The Commissionerate has given recommendations for empiric use of Hydroxychloroquine tablets for prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 and has instructed all the Deputy Commissioners to ensure that the health workers are provided with Hydoxychloroquine tablets.
All cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness should be referred to district level hospital or medical college with ICU facility for clinical management. Sample may be taken for COVID-19 testing as per revised sample collection protocols.
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Lucknow (PTI): A chief judicial magistrate's court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said.
Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said.
The CJM has sought the probe report within a month.
The 63-year-old Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district jail in "an unconscious state" on Thursday evening and died at the hospital following a cardiac arrest.
Afzal Ansari, who is also the Ghazipur MP, on Tuesday alleged that his brother was given slow poison in jail.
"Mukhtar said that he was given a poisonous substance in food in jail. This happened for the second time. Around 40 days ago also he was given poison. And recently, he was again given this (poison) due to which his condition is bad," Afzal Ansari had said.
Afzal Ansari had said that during the virtual hearing of a case in a Barabanki court on March 21, Ansari's lawyer had filed an application in the court alleging that his client had been given "slow poison" in jail due to which his condition was deteriorating.
Earlier, Ansari was hospitalised for around 14 hours on Tuesday after he complained of abdominal pain.
According to the probe order letter, a request was made by the Senior Superintendent, District Jail, Banda on March 28 to nominate an officer for the judicial inquiry into the death of Ansari.
Director General of Prisons SN Sabat had earlier told PTI that there will be a judicial inquiry into the matter.