First COVID-19 positive patient of Udupi District set to be discharged from hospital on Sunday
Udupi: The first patient of Udupi District who tested negative for the COVID-19 infection is ready to be discharged from the hospital after he has tested negative for the Virus. District DHO and Family Welfare Officer, Dr. Sudhir Chandra informed the patient will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday April 12.
He further informed that the samples of the patient sent for testing on April 8 had tested negative for the virus and the patient is fit to be discharged from the hospital.
The DHO also informed that few other patients who had tested positive for the virus have now tested positive in their first tests and they will be discharged after their second reports test negative.
Meanwhile all the borders of the District have been closed and entry and exit to and from the District has been restricted to cap the spread of Corona Virus in the District. Borders with Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Shivmoga and Chikkamagaluru have been sealed by the District Administration.
The move of sealing the borders has come amidst reports that people of the District currently staying elsewhere due to the country-wide lockdown and people of other Districts were planning to travel to and from the District after the lockdown ends on April 14.
In an official statement, the Deputy Commissioner of the District added that all the people who arrived in the District from abroad have completed their quarantine and none have reported positive for the virus. He then added that the District was safe from the virus from the people who’ve arrived from abroad and that the District Administration was not risking to allow people from infected Districts and areas to enter the District temporarily and hence the borders were sealed.
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Efforts on to bring Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna back to India: Home Minister
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday said efforts are on to bring Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse against women, back to India.
He also asserted that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case was functioning efficiently.
The 33-year-old Prajwal, who is the grandson of JD(S) patriarch and former PM H D Deve Gowda, is facing charges of multiple instances of sexually abusing women.
The scandal has raised a political storm with the ruling Congress and BJP-JD(S) engaged in a slugfest.
Prajwal reportedly left for Germany on April 27 and is still at large.
He was BJP-JD(S) alliance's candidate from Hassan Lok Sabha segment, which went to polls in the first phase on April 26.
"Procedures are on, until we secure him, bring him back here and take action in accordance with law, they will continue. We will neither slow it nor stop it," Parameshwara told reporters on questions about the Interpol's Blue Corner Notice that was issued against Prajwal.
On BJP alleging that the government was "responsible" for Prajwal's "escape" from the country, the Minister said, "They will say it, they have to say such things. They cannot say the government is doing a good job. But we have a responsibility as a government. Such incidents cannot be taken lightly. We will do our job."
Accusing the Congress government of trying to tarnish the reputation of Deve Gowda's family instead of ensuring justice to victims of alleged sex videos scandal case involving Prajwal, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy had recently alleged that every bit of information on the investigation is being sent to a Congress MLA of Mandya district, but not the Home Minister.
Reacting to this, Parameshwara said: "Kumaraswamy is also well aware, several things we cannot bring to the public domain, because the investigation is on. Who will brief the Mandya MLA? Making such allegations is easy. We all have responsibility and we are functioning with responsibility, and we are not under any compulsions."
"I want to tell him (Kumaraswamy) that SIT is working efficiently, and whatever they have to brief me or the Chief Minister, they will brief. Let there be no doubts about it," he said.
