Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel tests positive for COVID-19
Bengaluru: BJP Karnataka state unit President Nalin Kumar Kateel on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 but was asymptomatic.
"I underwent COVID-19 test and the reports have come out as positive. Despite being asymptomatic, on the advice of the doctors, I'm getting hospitalised," Kateel, also a member of Lok Sabha from Dakshina Kannada constituency, tweeted.
Expressing confidence that with the blessings and good wishes from everyone he will recover and get back soon, the 53-year-old requested all those who had come in contact with him to be cautious.
Kateel, who recently completed one year in the party post, has been travelling across the state and holding meetings at several districts strengthening the organisation.
Earlier several senior politicians in the state including Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah, Congress state President D K Shivakumar had tested positive for coronavirus.
While Yediyurappa and Siddaramaiah have been discharged, Shivakumar is undergoing treatment.
Several ministers of the state government, also legislators have tested positive and are under medication.
ನಾನು #COVID19 ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿದ್ದು ವರದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಸಿಟಿವ್ ಎಂದು ಬಂದಿದೆ. ರೋಗಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳಿಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ವೈದ್ಯರ ಸಲಹೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ದಾಖಲಾಗಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
— Nalinkumar Kateel (@nalinkateel) August 30, 2020
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
