COVID-19: 8 new cases confirmed, total cases in K'taka reach 91

Bengaluru: Eight new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of the affected in the state to 91, the Health Department said here on Monday, March 30.

“Three people of the same family from Hosapetehave confirmed for COVID-19 today. The total number of infected in Karnataka has increased to 91.

They have been admitted at the isolated ward,” state Health Minister B Sriramulu tweeted late in the evening.

Earlier in the day the department in a bulletin had said 88 COVID-19 positive cases had so far been confirmed in the state, which includes three deaths and six discharges.

Of the 79 active cases, 78 patients in isolation at designated hospitals are stable and one is on ventilator,it had said, adding six out of total of 88 cases were transit passengers who landed at airports in the state and were being treated in hospitals in Karnataka.

Though details about three new cases mentioned by the Minister are awaited, among five cases confirmed bythe department earlier, all are contacts of a patient already tested positive.

While one of them, a 13-year-old male resident of Tumkur, is the son of a COVID-19 patient, the other four men, ranging in age from 24 years to 34 years, were from Nanjanagud in Mysuru and worked in the same pharmaceutical company, where the patient who recently tested positive, despite no travel or contact history, had worked.

Contact tracing has been initiated for all the cases, the department said.

Among the 91 positive cases. 41 were from Bengaluru, 12 from Mysuru, eight from Chikkaballapura, seven from Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada, three each from Kalaburgai, Davangere, Udupi abd Ballari, two from Tumakuru, and one each from Kodagu and Dharwad.

All the six discharged patients are from Bengaluru, while one death each was reported in Kalaburgari, Bengaluru and Tumakuru.