Two more tests positive for Corona Virus in Dakshina Kannada
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada on Friday two more positive cases of Corona Virus in the District, taking the total number of cases in the District to 24. Two male patients tested positive for the virus in the District on Friday.
According to the state health bulletin, the 62-year old husband of the 58-year old woman of Bolar who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, also tested positive for the virus on Friday. Another 69-year old patient hailing from Kasaba in Bantwal Taluk also tested positive for the virus.
The 58-year old woman was admitted to a private hospital in Padil where a staffer had tested positive for the virus. After her discharge, the woman had symptoms of fever following which she was admitted to Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru and tested positive for Corona Virus on Thursday. Her husband tested positive for the virus on Friday.
The other patient who tested positive on Friday hails from Bantwal and is a neighbor of the woman who died due to the virus on April 19.
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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.
