Mangaluru: Twelve new COVID-19 cases in DK on Wednesday; Ullal Police Station PSI tests positive
Mangaluru: A 57-year-old woman died of coronavirus for the second consecutive day. Meanwhile, 12 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the district on Wednesday. This list also includes a PSI of the Ullal Police Station. With this, the tally of such cases has climbed up to 465 in the district.
Wednesday is also the first time that 45 people have been recovered in a single, and this has brought a ray of hope among the people here.
Of the new cases, four people (a 29-year-old youth, 25, 51, and 24-year-old women) have returned from Sharjah and were quarantined, while the remaining eight were infected without any travel history. This is the first time in the district that many people have been infected in a single day whose source of the contract remained untraced. Seven of them are residents of Mangaluru, one is from Puttur and all are men.
Presently, 155 people are being treated at District COVID Hospital and most of them are in stable condition. A 41-year-old man suffering from COVID-infected pneumonia and a 57-year-old woman suffering from liver problems are being treated at the ICU.
45 people recovered: This is the first time a large number (45 people) who were infected with coronavirus have been released from the hospital after recovery. From a two-year-old child to a 61-year-old senior citizen have recovered. Most of those released are young. In all, 301 people have been cured in the district so far, Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B. Rupesh said.
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Four dead in highway pile-up in Karnataka
Ballari (Karnataka) (PTI): At least four people are feared dead and some others were injured in a pile-up involving a bus, a garlic-laden lorry, a car and multiple two-wheelers near Danapur in Hospet taluk of Vijayanagara district on National Highway 50 on Saturday morning, police said.
According to police sources, the accident began as a minor collision but escalated when the speeding lorry rammed into a bike and subsequently crashed into a bus and a car before overturning.
The lorry fell onto the car and dragged it for nearly 100 metres after the impact, police said.
Preliminary inquiry suggests the driver was transporting garlic towards Chitradurga and was driving at high speed, leading to loss of control and a chain collision.
“The four occupants of the car are feared to have died on the spot after the lorry toppled onto the vehicle,” police sources said, adding that some people sustained injuries, some of them serious.
Rescue operations were underway to clear the overturned vehicle and retrieve those trapped.
The injured have been shifted to government hospitals in Hospet and Koppal for treatment, they added.
Vehicular movement on National Highway 50 was severely affected, with traffic piling up for several kilometres as locals gathered at the accident site and emergency teams intensified relief efforts.
