Puttur: A lecturer in Punchappady village in Puttur taluk has built a home on a tree to maintain social distancing. He has built a hut on a tree near his home and has lived there for the past 8 days.

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has declared 170 districts in 25 states as COVID-19 hotspots and 207 districts in 27 states as non-hotspots, officials said on Wednesday, reiterating that there has been no community transmission of the disease in the country so far.

Mangaluru: People in Dakshina Kannada heave a sigh of relief as 42 people have been tested negative to COVID-19 on Wednesday . With this, there is no positive case of COVID-19 in the district for 11 consecutive days.   

Mangaluru: Violating all the regulations and norms of the country-wide lockdown due to the spread of Corona Virus, hundreds of daily wage labourers gathered outside a private building in the city on Wednesday afternoon. The move by the labourers was prompted by a rumor that spread like a wildfire adding that Rs. 2000 were being deposited into their account

A 28-year old man who died on Tuesday after complaining of constipation and stomach pain in Surathkal has tested negative for COVID-19.

Mangaluru: Rasheed Vitla's report about a heartbreaking incident in which two Puttur youths who were returning from Gujarat's Rajkot were stranded on the Gujarat-Maharashtra border due to the lockdown and were living in a car was published on Varthabharati.in. The Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner responded immediately and requested Gujarat's Valsad Deputy Commissioner to make a proper arrangement.

Karwar: Five COVID-19 patients who were admitted to the INS Patanjali Hospital in Naval Base have been released on Tuesday. The district administration has decided to keep them at a quarantine center in Bhatkal, said Deputy Commissioner Harish Kumar K.

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District Administration on Tuesday organised the 129^th birth anniversary celebration of the architect of Indian Constitution, Bharat Ratna Dr. B R Ambedkar, at the office of Deputy Commissioner here in the city.