Mangaluru: To lend a helping hand to the Dakshina Kannada District Administration in its fight against the global pandemic of Corona Virus, the PA College of Engineering (PACE) has offered a 143 bedded building within its campus to the administration.

Five persons among those who returned from Dubai on May 12, have tested positive for COVID -19, said Udupi District Health and Family Welfare Officer Dr. Sudheer Chandra Sood.

Some passengers who arrived here on board the first repatriation flight from Dubai two days ago have complained about 'lack' of proper arrangements for handling the returnees,prompting the Dakshina Kannada district administration to take up the matter with airport authorities.

Dakshina Kannada district recorded its fifth COVID-19 death on Thursday.

Mangaluru: Pregnant women, children below 10 years of age, and senior citizens above 80 years of age, will be subjected to home quarantine if they test negative for COVID-19 in the first report , as per the state government's new guidelines; said Deputy Commissioner Sindhu b. Rupesh.

Udupi: Refuting the claims doing rounds in local media, newspapers and social media, BRS Health and Research Institute Private Limited has issued a press statement adding that it has not surrendered the Haji Abdullah Mother and Child Hospital, Udupi to the Government of Karnataka and that they were being misquoted by the media and newspapers.

In what is the fourth death due to COVID-19 in Dakshina Kannada District, a 58-year old woman on Wednesday succumbed to the virus at Wenlock Hospital in the city here.

For the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown in Karnataka, KSRTC and a few private buses started services in select routes in Udupi district Wednesday following the decision taken by the district administration.