Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district registered a massive 199 new positive COVID-18 cases, on Sunday, taking the total tally to 4,811. The district has eight new COVID deaths.
The deceased are *A 71-year-old male, a resident of Mangaluru, who was admitted to a private hospital on July 19, and passed away on July 23. He was diagnosed with ARDS/multiorgan dysfunction, chronic renal disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
* A 70-year-old male from Mangaluru was admitted to a private hospital on July 20 and passed away on July 24. He had developed sepsis, chronic kidney disease, lower respiratory tract infection, and other ailments.
*A 55-year-old male resident of Puttur was admitted to a private hospital on July 23, and passed away a day later. He was diagnosed with septic shock with acute kidney injury with severe metaboic acidosis.
*A 56-year-old male resident of Mangaluru who was admitted to a private hospital on July 20 passed away on July 24. He was suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan dysfunction syndrome and ischemic heart disease.
*A 72-year-old male Mangaluru resident who was admitted to a private hospital on July 18 passed away on July 24. He was suffering from refractory hypoxemia/refractory ARDS, septic shock, secondary bacterial infection, renal failure, acute coronary event, and other ailments.
*A 45-year-old female Mangaluru resident who was admitted to a private hospital on July 24 passed away the same day. She had been diagnosed with metastatic carcinoma of right lung and pneumonia.
*A 55-year-old male resident of Mangaluru who was admitted to a private hospital on July 21 and died on July 24. As per the district bulletin, he was suffering from refractory hypoxemia/refractory ARDS, septic shock, secondary bacterial infection, renal failure, acute coronary event, and other ailments.
*A 70-year-old male resident of Mangaluru suffering from severe pneumonia with ARDS, multiorgan dysfunction, sepsis, chronic kidney disease and hypothyroidism was admitted to a private hospital on July 24 and passed away the same day.
A total of 3,3649 samples were collected in the district so far and 2217 have been discharged so far after treatment. A total of 90 persons were discharged on Sunday.
