10 new COVID-19 positive cases in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Karnataka recorded 10 new positive COVID-19 cases, raising the total to 74, an official said on Saturday.
“Till date, 74 Covid-19 positive cases have been confirmed which includes three deaths and five discharges,” said a health official.
The new cases rose between 5 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday.
Karnataka’s 65th positive case is a 54-year-old woman from Uttara Kannada, wife of another positive case – a 65-year-old man from Uttara Kannada district who travelled to Dubai and returned to India via Mumbai on March 18. He took a train to Uttara Kannada.
The 65-year-old man’s 28-year-old daughter has tested positive as the 66th case. Similarly, his second daughter also, a 23-year-old woman, tested positive to emerge as the 67th case.
Next, a 21-year-old man from Bengaluru with travel history to London tested positive as the 68th case. He is the son of a positive case and returned to India on March 17.
The 25th case was a 51-year-old man from Bengaluru who returned from London on March 13.
A 23-year-old man from Hindupur, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, a contact of the 19th case, has tested positive as the 69th case.
The 19th case was a 31-year-old man from Chikkaballapura with travel history to Mecca, Saudi Arabia who returned to India on March 14.
Five contacts of the 19th case tested positive for the virus, the other four include: a 70-year-old man from Chikkaballapura, 32-year-old woman from the same place, 38-year-old man from the same place, and an 18-year-old man from Hindupur, the 73rd case.
The last case on Saturday morning and the state’s 74th case is a 63-year-old woman from the city with travel history to London. She returned to India on March 16.
All the new cases have been admitted in designated hospitals.
Meanwhile, city civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued a public notice to provide free food at Indira Canteens to daily wage workers and poor people between 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.