Mangaluru: The COVID positive cases in the district are spiking and on Thursday the district registered 90 new COVID positive cases.
Meanwhile, District Health Officer, Taluk Health Officer and the pathologist of the Covid testing lab in the city tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, July 2.
Several frontline health workers and Corona warriors have been tested positive so far in the district.
Meanwhile, a seven-day-old new born and its 21-year-old mother were tested positive.
With the 90 new cases, there 915 total positive cases in the district. One person succumbed to the infection on Thursday, taking total death toll to 19 in the district.