Udupi : International master athlete Jyothi Shetty dies in accident
Udupi, June 10: International master athlete Jyothi Shetty Kodavur (50) who sustained severe injuries in a road accident that occurred near Ambagilu on Saturday, succumbed to the injuries at Manipal hospital here on Sunday.
While going with her brother Srinivas Shetty in a two-wheeler as a pillion rider, she fell down from the scooter as her brother applied break suddenly and sustained severe head injury. Later, she was admitted to the Manipal hospital, but breathed her last on Sunday evening.
Jyothi Shetty had entered the athletics as master athlete in 2011 and has won more than 100 medals from state, national and international athletic tournaments. In 2017, she got two medals in Asian Master Athletics in Hurdles and Relay held in China.
In 2016, he had participated in World Master Athletics Championship held at Australia and won a medal in a Master Athletics tournament held in Sri Lanka. She also got various prizes in marathon events held in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. She was preparing to participate in World Master Athletic Championship to be held in Spain in next September.
Being a social worker, she also worked as a physical education teacher at a private school in Udupi. She is survived by husband Uday Kumar Shetty, one daughter and a son. A case has been registered at Udupi traffic police station.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
