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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Vice president embarks on two-day visit to Sri Lanka
New Delhi (PTI): Vice President of India C P Radhakrishnan on Sunday left for Sri Lanka on a two-day official visit.
This marks the first bilateral visit by an Indian vice president to Sri Lanka, his office said.
During the visit, Radhakrishnan will call on the President of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Disanayaka.
He will also meet the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya, along with other dignitaries on April 19, an official statement said.
Radhakrishnan will interact with leaders of the Indian-origin Tamil community and Tamil leaders from the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka.
Later in the day, the vice president will address the Indian diaspora at a community event in Colombo, where he will virtually hand over houses to beneficiaries from Tamil communities, built with assistance from the Indian government as part of the third phase of the Indian Housing Project.
With this, the total number of houses for Tamil communities will reach 50,000, and 10,000 more houses are being built in the fourth phase of the project, the statement mentioned.
On April 20, the vice president will travel to Nuwara Eliya, visit the Indian Housing Projects, and interact with the local Tamil community.
This visit, which follows recent high-level engagements between the two countries, is expected to further strengthen the millennia-old civilisational and people-to-people ties between India and Sri Lanka, the statement said.
