<p>There is no let up in Covid-19 cases in Bagalkot district. Bagalkot town saw two, including a woman, while Mudhol reported five confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. The district has now 21 cases, including a death (of 75-year-old man).</p>.<p>A 65-year-old man, the primary contact of Patient 186, and his brother’s wife, aged 48, contracted the virus. Both the infected, residents of Bagalkot town, have been admitted to Covid-19 ward in the district hospital.</p>.<p>In Mudhol, Patient-263 transmitted virus to five of his contacts, including a watchman of ATM kiosk and another man who had helped him draw money, the Health department sources said.</p>.<p>So far, a total of 222 throat swab samples from the district have returned negative. The results of further 190 samples are awaited, said Deputy Commissioner Capt Dr Rajendra.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the Ranganwadi area in Gadag town on Saturday saw its third confirmed case of Covid-19. A 42-year-old man, contact of the 59-year-old woman (Patient 304), tested positive for the virus.</p>.<p>Patient 304, a small-time cloth vendor who was into a door-to-door sales, was the contact of the first Covid-19 case in the town (P 166), a 80-year-old woman who died of heart attack at the district hospital on April 8.</p>.<p>Dharwad district recorded its seventh Covid-19 positive case on Saturday. A 63-year-old man (P-363), a secondary contact of P-236, has turned positive. He is a resident of Karaadi Oni in old Hubballi and a graveyard guard by profession. He was shifted to the isolation ward at KIMS, Hubballi, on Friday night.</p>.<p>Sources said that he was housed at government quarantine facility since April 14, after medical reports P-236, of Mulla Oni in Old Hubballi turned positive. While the P-363 says that he had no direct contact with P-236, the both are said to have met at Thoravi Hakkala Khabrastan during a funeral on March 27.</p>.<p>In Kalaburagi district, two people, including a 16-year-old boy, tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. Total count of the positive patients touched 22 in the district.</p>.<p>According to a source, the boy worked at an egg distribution centre owned by a Shahbad-based family, in which two of its members - a woman and her daughter-in-law tested positive a few days back. Throat swab sample of a 34-year-old man from Kalaburagi also returned positive for virus.</p>
<p>There is no let up in Covid-19 cases in Bagalkot district. Bagalkot town saw two, including a woman, while Mudhol reported five confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. The district has now 21 cases, including a death (of 75-year-old man).</p>.<p>A 65-year-old man, the primary contact of Patient 186, and his brother’s wife, aged 48, contracted the virus. Both the infected, residents of Bagalkot town, have been admitted to Covid-19 ward in the district hospital.</p>.<p>In Mudhol, Patient-263 transmitted virus to five of his contacts, including a watchman of ATM kiosk and another man who had helped him draw money, the Health department sources said.</p>.<p>So far, a total of 222 throat swab samples from the district have returned negative. The results of further 190 samples are awaited, said Deputy Commissioner Capt Dr Rajendra.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the Ranganwadi area in Gadag town on Saturday saw its third confirmed case of Covid-19. A 42-year-old man, contact of the 59-year-old woman (Patient 304), tested positive for the virus.</p>.<p>Patient 304, a small-time cloth vendor who was into a door-to-door sales, was the contact of the first Covid-19 case in the town (P 166), a 80-year-old woman who died of heart attack at the district hospital on April 8.</p>.<p>Dharwad district recorded its seventh Covid-19 positive case on Saturday. A 63-year-old man (P-363), a secondary contact of P-236, has turned positive. He is a resident of Karaadi Oni in old Hubballi and a graveyard guard by profession. He was shifted to the isolation ward at KIMS, Hubballi, on Friday night.</p>.<p>Sources said that he was housed at government quarantine facility since April 14, after medical reports P-236, of Mulla Oni in Old Hubballi turned positive. While the P-363 says that he had no direct contact with P-236, the both are said to have met at Thoravi Hakkala Khabrastan during a funeral on March 27.</p>.<p>In Kalaburagi district, two people, including a 16-year-old boy, tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. Total count of the positive patients touched 22 in the district.</p>.<p>According to a source, the boy worked at an egg distribution centre owned by a Shahbad-based family, in which two of its members - a woman and her daughter-in-law tested positive a few days back. Throat swab sample of a 34-year-old man from Kalaburagi also returned positive for virus.</p>
