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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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.
