67-year-old woman tests positive:11 COVID19 cases in Karnataka

A 67-year-old woman has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of cases in Karnataka to 11, officials said on Tuesday. The woman, a resident of the city, had returned from Dubai via Goa last week.

Three other people, including a doctor who had treated the country's first coronavirus fatality, tested positive for the infection on Monday. A health department media bulletin said "67-year-old female who is a resident of Bangalore returned from Dubai via Goa on March 9. She is a known case of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

She has been in strict home quarantine since coming to Bangalore." The woman was admitted to the hospital on March 16. According to the bulletin, 21 high risk contacts including five family members have been identified and they are under strict home quarantine.

Officials said till date 11 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Karnataka, including one death. The ten patients were in isolation wards and are stable, they added.

The family doctor of the 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who died last week was among the infected, the department had said in an update earlier on Tuesday. The 63-year-old doctor had treated the elderly man who died "due to co-morbidity and also tested positive for COVID-19." He (doctor) was under strict home quarantine, the department said, adding that "He is now admitted in an solation facility in Kalaburagi and stable.

According to the bulletin, 50 primary contacts have been traced including seven family members.All are asymptomatic and under home quarantine. A 20-year-old woman, a resident of Bengaluru who returned from the UK, has also tested positive for the virus.

She has been admitted to a designated isolation facility and is stable, the bulletin said. "Her five primary contacts have been identified and are under strict home quarantine," it said.

Earlier on Monday, a 32-year-old man, a software engineer who arrived from the US via London earlier this month, tested positive. He was on the same flight as another person who was later confirmed to be infected.

He was under home quarantine, and has now been admitted to an isolation facility and is stable, it added. According to officials, total samples collected for testing is 943, and on Tuesday alone 48 were collected.

A total of 766 samples have reported negative, including 71 on Tuesday alone. Medical education minister K Sudhakar said "social distancing is the only solution to ensure that we contain this virus." Speaking to reporters here, he said taking note of the spread of virus at air-conditioned places officials held a meeting with the restaurant association and have come to an understanding to switch off the AC at restaurants, and to maintain one metre distance between two chairs.

The minister also appealed to patients to go to hospitals where there is heavy rush only in cases of emergency and if it cannot be avoided. Sudhakar said non-essential medical services like dental service should be closed across the state, until further orders.

"This is an advisory," he added..

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