Udupi District Witnesses over 845 COVID-19 cases in Five Days
Udupi: 845 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Udupi District in last five days, taking the total number of cases to 14883, according to the health bulletin released by the district administration on September 18.
Among the 845 new cases, 578 are from Udupi, 127 from Kundapur, 114 from Karkala, and 26 from outside the district.
As of now, 209 throat swab samples are pending for results, 92474 samples were sent for testing from September 14-18, and 5633 samples were tested negative. A total of 77382 swab samples out of the 92474 have tested negative for the coronavirus.
The number of active cases in the district has now gone up to 1703. So far, 13041 patients have been discharged from the hospital after complete recovery, and 139 persons have succumbed to COVID-19.
