COVID-19: Fatalities increase to 35 with two more deaths in Karnataka, 22 new cases reported
Bengaluru: With two more deaths, COVID-19 related fatalities rose to 35 in Karnataka, where 22 new positive cases have been confirmed, taking the total number of infections in the state to 981, the Health Department said on Thursday.
Among the two deceased is a 80-year old woman from Dakshina Kannada, who got admitted at private hospital with complaint of stroke.
On confirmation for COVID-19, she was shifted to ICU of the designated hospital in the district on April 26 and died today due to septic shock.
Also, a 60-year old man from Ananthapur in Andhra Pradesh was admitted at a dedicated hospital in Bengaluru Urban with symptoms of severe pneumonia, respiratory distress with hypotension and known case of Diabetes Mellitus. He died today due to cardiac arrest.
"Twenty-two new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon...Till date 981 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 35 deaths and 456 discharges," the department said in its mid-day situation update.
The 22 new cases include- five from Bengaluru urban, four each from Mandya, Gadag and Bidar, three from Davangere, and one each from Belagavi and Bagalkote.
While six cases each are contacts of patients already tested positive and with travel history to Mumbai, four with travel history to Ahmedabad, three from containment zone in Bidar, and one each are from containment zone in Davangere, history of Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and history of domestic travel.
Among 22 new cases, four are children.
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SC asks Centre to consider amending law on terminating pregnancy of rape survivors
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to a plea by AIIMS seeking to set aside its order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, and asked the Centre to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks.
The top court said when there is pregnancy due to rape, there should not be a time limit.
Law needs to be organic and in sync with evolving time, it stressed.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said this is a case of child rape and the survivor will have a lifelong scar and trauma if termination is not allowed.
The top court said if the mother does not have permanent disability then it should be carried out.
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It asked AIIMS to counsel parents of the survivor over the issue and said the decision has to be of the person concerned.
"There are children for adoption. In this country we have lot of sympathies...There are deserted, abandoned children on the streets and even mafias on it. We have to look at them. This is an unwanted pregnancy of a 15-year-old child.
"This is a curative petition. Unwanted pregnancy cannot be thrusted on a person. Imagine she is a child. She should be studying now. But we want to make her a mother. Imagine the pain, the humiliation the child has suffered in this," the bench said.
Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for AIIMS, mentioned the curative plea, and said the termination of pregnancy is not possible.
"It will be a live baby with severe deformities. Minor mother will have lifelong health issues and cannot reproduce. Minor mother will have lifelong health issues. This child can be given for adoption. It has been 30 weeks now. It is a viable life now," she said.
The top court said the decision on termination has to choice of the survivor and her parents and AIIMS may help them take an informed decision.
On April 24, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had allowed the girl to medically terminate her pregnancy of 30 weeks.
