BENGALURU: A 69-year-old man who died in Vijayapura on Sunday was infected with Covid-19, the Karnataka health and family welfare department said on Tuesday. The death toll in the state has risen to nine.
The department reported 11 new positive cases, taking the total number of the infected in the state to 258.
The Vijayapura man was primary contact of a 60-year-old woman who had developed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and was found positive on April 12.
The 11 new cases also include one 65-year-old man who had breathed his last in Bengaluru on Monday.
The other cases include three each from Kalaburagi and Bagalkot, and one each Bengaluru Urban, Belagavi and Chikkabalapura districts.
All three Bagalkot cases have been traced back to the first positive case from the town - a 75-year-old man who had tested positive and died on April 3. He had no international travel history and suffered from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection. The three new patients include a 43-year-old man and two women, aged 32 and 39 years.
Chikkabalapura’s new patient is a 65-year-old man with SARI. A 26-year-old male Bengaluru Urban district who had come to the city on his two-wheeler from Hindupur on April 7 has also tested positive.
In Belagavi, a 33-year-old male patient with a travel history to New Delhi, tested positive on Tuesday, taking the tally of active cases in the district to 18.
In Kalaburagi, a 10-year-old girl and a 35-year-old woman, both linked to a 65-year-old male patient who had passed away on April 7 and was declared positive on April 8, have been found to be infected. The day's third Kalaburagi patient is a 51-year-old man, who is the brother of a contact of one of the attendees of the single source event. The district now has 11 active cases.
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