Mangaluru: One-year-old child among 29 people who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada recorded 29 new Corona cases on Thursday including a one-year-old child, which raised the total number of infected to 494.
Of the new cases, 19 people had returned from Saudi Arabia, Muscat, Sharjah, and Qatar. Also, the cases include 11 women, a one-year-old child, and eight men.
A 35-year-old woman in the city was diagnosed with influenza-like illness. A 50-year-old woman was put under the 'contact under tracing' category. A 24-year-old man who had come from Mumbai on June 21 had been kept under quarantine. All the infected people are being treated at the District Wenlock Hospital.
Also, a 68-year-old woman died due to severe acute respiratory infection on Wednesday.
In a positive development, 43 patients were discharged on Thursday, following recovery. The number of recovered patients has gone up to 344. Most of the patients are also showing steady health conditions.
A 49-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman with multiple health disorders were both put under ICU with oxygen supply and ventilator respectively.
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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.
