97, including 12 elderly people, test positive for coronavirus in Dakshina Kannada
District records 3 deaths on Sunday
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada has registered as many as 97 new cases of Corona infection on Sunday.
This is the highest number of cases in a single day in the district, which now has had a total of 673 cases. Three people have also died on Sunday.
The number of cases is increasing steadily but the source of infection is not detected in many cases, giving rise to further fear and worry among the people on the manner of spread of the virus.
Of the positive cases found on Sunday, there have been 29 people who returned from Saudi Arabia on June 10, 21 and 22 and a 26-year-old man who returned on June 19 from Qatar. There are 21 people with influenza-like illness (ILI) and five with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). The source of illness of 28 people has not been identified yet, but 10 positive cases are said to have had primary-level with earlier cases, two men – aged 25 and 27 years – came from Chennai on June 20, and a 30-year-old woman came from Mumbai on June 10, said Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh.
The bulletin of the Health Department released on Sunday has said that 12 senior citizens in the district were found to be positive – men aged 78, 75, 74, 70, 68, 68, 64, 63, 62 and 60 years and women aged 65 and 60 years.
The only news of relief for the people of the district is that six people, including patients aged 70 and 67 years, were discharged from hospital post-treatment on Sunday.
So far, 422 people have recovered in the district. Most of the people under treatment are said to be in a stable condition.
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ED raids Kolkata Police deputy commissioner, businessman in PMLA probe
Kolkata (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday conducted raids at the premises of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and a local businessman as part of a money laundering probe against an alleged criminal and his linked syndicate in the poll-bound state, officials said.
Two premises of Biswas, including his residence in Ballygunge area and one location of the businessman named Joy Kamdar, Managing Director of a company named Sun Enterprise, have been raided under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Kamdar has been taken by the officials to the local ED office for questioning. Biswas, chief coordinator and nodal officer of the West Bengal and Kolkata Police welfare committee, was not present at his premises, they said.
The action is linked to a money laundering case against an alleged local criminal named Biswajit Podder alias Sona Pappu, who is booked in multiple cases on charges of attempted murder and extortion.
The federal probe agency had conducted the first round of searches in this case on April 1.
The ED had then seized cash of Rs 1.47 crore apart from gold jewellery and silver valued at Rs 67.64 lakh and a country-made revolver from some premises that were searched.
The probe stems from a Kolkata Police FIR against against Podder for his alleged involvement in rioting, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and Arms Act violations. The accused, including Podder, were engaged in organised criminal syndicate activities in the state of West Bengal and generated funds illegally by way of syndicate operations, the ED said in a statement on April 9.
Podder is also wanted by the police in a case of violence in Kankulia road near Golpark of Kolkata and is currently on the run.
The ED has issued summons to Podder but he has failed to join the investigation so far, according to the agency.
West Bengal will have a two phase poll on April 23 and April 29.
