Elderly woman critical, no fresh COVID-19 cases in DK, Udupi districts in Karnataka
Mangaluru: A 67-year old woman COVID-19 patient was in a critical condition at a hospital here while no fresh cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in Karnataka on Wednesday.
The woman from Bantwal, being treated at the Wenlock Hospital here, was on ventilator support in the intensive care unit and her condition stated to be critical, the Dakshina Kannada district administration said in a release.
In the district, a total of 2,841 samples have been sent for tests so far, of which 2,426 tested negative and 21 positive. Reports of 394 samples are awaited, it said.
The district currently has seven active Covid-19 patients, while two had succumbed to the disease. A total of 99 persons are quarantined at NIT-K facility in Surathkal and the ESI hospital here.
In Udupi district also, no fresh case was reported Wednesday. The district at present has no Covid-19 patient under treatment. All three patients have been cured and discharged.
Reports of 63 samples sent to labs are awaited, a release said.
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Confident we are going to win Kerala: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed confidence in the victory of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, saying the Congress-led alliance will win more than 75 seats out of the total 140 in the state.
Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls, most of which predicted a victory for the UDF that has been out of power for 10 years in the state.
"We have been on the ground. I have campaigned in 59 constituencies across 12 districts out of 14. I was very confident we are going to win.
"Everything that I have picked up from not just my party colleagues and workers but also from other observers, media and others have always convinced me that we were going to score a comfortable win of above 75 seats. And all the (exit) polls have confirmed the same thing," he told reporters here.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls but in general he was not a big fan of exit polls in India.
"Because ours is not purely a homogenous society. We have to take into account gender issue, caste issue, class issue, regional disparities. You never get a convincingly large enough sample to give an accurate poll and now there is the additional complication that we have heard about in West Bengal this year that many people are unwilling to answer the questions of the pollsters," he said.
The Congress leader said normally, it used to be below 10 per cent that people said that they would not answer.
"Even if you are a reputable exit pollster, in Bengal, one polling company has said 60 per cent of people refused to answer. So, what is the worth of a poll where 60 per cent of your respondents have not answered," he said.
Several exit polls on Wednesday predicted a comeback by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala after 10 years, dethroning the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Polling for the 140-member Kerala assembly was held on April 9. Results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, besides Kerala, will be announced on May 4.
