63-year-old man tested positive for Covid-19 dies in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, May 31 (PTI): A 63-year-old man with co-morbidities and who tested positive for Covid-19 died at a private hospital here, taking the coronavirus-related death toll in the state to four, officials said on Saturday.
He was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru Urban (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike limits) on May 21 after he complained of weakness and died on May 29, they said.
According to the health department statement, the elderly patient who was fully vaccinated was on post operative chemotherapy and had co-morbidities like pulmonary TB with squamous cell carcinoma of buccal mucosa.
The patient died due to saggital sinus, internal jugular vein thrombosis with cancer cachexia with incidental Covid positive status, it added.
Meanwhile, the health department bulletin pegged active Covid-19 cases at 238 in Karnataka as of May 31, with 58 new cases reported on Saturday.
The day also saw a total of 420 tests being done for Covid, including 354 RTPCR and 66 RAT tests. Saturday's positivity rate stood at 13.8 per cent and fatality rate at 1.7 per cent, it added.
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Yadgir: Six people burnt alive in private bus-car collision on Bidar-Bengaluru Highway in Surapura
Surapura: In a tragic road accident reported from the taluk, six people were burnt alive in a collision between a private bus and a car on the Bidar-Bengaluru Highway near the Shanthapura Cross close to the Thinthani Bridge on Friday morning.
A fire broke out due to the force of the collision, and both vehicles were gutted in the flames.
The bus is learned to have been traveling from Lingasugur to Kalaburagi, and the car was going towards Lingasugur. While none of the passengers in the bus was reportedly endangered in the accident, all six people traveling the car died in the accident and are learned to have burnt in the fire.
The local fire brigade has successfully doused the flames.
Inspector Umesh M and team of the Surapura Police Station is learned to have arrived at the accident spot and conducted an inspection.
The skulls of four people are said to have been found among the debris.
