Mangaluru: 10 children, 6 pregnant women among 30 who tested positive for COVID-19 in DK on Saturday
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District on Saturday reported 30 fresh cases of Coronavirus which has taken the total toll of the number of infected patients in the District to 271.
Among the 30 people who tested positive for the virus on Saturday, 25 returned from Saudi Arabia and are at quarantine centers. The other five returned from Maharashtra.
However, in what has come as unwelcoming news, a majority of the infected patients who tested positive on Saturday, are children and pregnant women. With people who returned from Saudi Arabia testing positive for the virus, the District Administration has been brought on toes as more than 300 people have arrived in the District from Saudi in the last one week and are at quarantine centers.
On Saturday, three infants aged one year, two infants aged two years and four-year-old two girl child tested positive for the virus. Seven children aged below five years have tested positive. Along with this, three other children aged below 14 years have also tested positive.
Six pregnant women have also tested positive for the virus.
A total of 196 reports of swab samples arrived, of which 30 returned as positive and 166 returned negative for the virus. The District administration has sent 258 more samples for testing on Saturday.
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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.
