Two more Test Positive for COVID-19 in Udupi, count rises to 3
Udupi: With two more persons testing positive for the coronavirus in Udupi district, taking the total cases to 3 in the district said home minister and Udupi District minister in-charge Basavaraj Bommai
The minister shared the information through video and said that three cases have now been confirmed positive in the district. We are tracking the contact history of three corona positive patients, he said.
The two patients are now admitted to KMC-Manipal.
Among the two, a 35-year-old man had returned from Dubai recently, and was initially admitted to a hospital in Karkala on March 27. While the 29-year-old man, who had visited Thiruvananthapuram on March 17, had got admitted to a hospital in Udupi on March 26.
District In-charge Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the primary contacts of the confirmed cases had been traced and measures had also been taken to contain the disease. The TMA Pai Hospital is exclusively readied to treat Covid-19 patients with 100 beds, he added.
Eleven people were admitted to isolation wards in various hospitals in the district on Sunday. As many as 128 samples have been tested in the district so far. Of which 122 samples have tested negative for Covid-19 while results for three samples are awaited. As many as 106 people were under home quarantine.
