23 new COVID-19 cases in Dakshina Kannada on Thursday takes total number of cases in District to 409
Mangaluru: The number of Corona infection cases is on the rise in Dakshina Kannada, with 23 new patients testing positive for the deadly virus on Thursday.
The test reports of 259 people received on Thursday confirmed 23 patients to be COVID-19 positive while 236 tested negative. The total number of cases in the district has gone up to 409, while six people, including a boy, were discharged from hospital on Thursday.
Among the new cases were men and women who returned from Saudi Arabia on June 8 and 11. Also, men aged 28 and 34 years who had primary contact with patient number P-6618. All of them are in quarantine and have been shifted to the district hospital, Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh told reporters.
Six men were discharged from the district hospital on Thursday. The number of recovery in the District from the virus has gone up to 176 now.
The district hospital is treating 225 patients and most of them are on the path of recovery. A 70-year-old man suffering from pneumonia and having diabetes, as well as a 52-year-old man with diabetes and cancer, are being treated in the ICU.
Throat swabs of 140 more people were sent to the laboratory for tests on Thursday.
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
