<p class="title">Eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Monday, taking the total tally to 91.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Four cases were reported from a pharmaceutical company in Nanjangud, Mysuru district, where six employees have already tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mysuru district has 12 patients, second highest in the state after Bengaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three of a family in Hosapete town, and the three-year-old son of the third casualty (from Sira) tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In desperation, the Health Department is taking swabs from packages of bulk materials imported by the company from China. It is not known when the packages arrived in India.</p>.<p class="bodytext"><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-india-news-live-updates-statewise-total-number-of-cases-deaths-statistics-lockdown-latest-news-817763.html#1"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Jawaid Akhtar, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, said, “Swabs are being taken from the packages of bulk material imported by the company from China.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Henceforth, all the district hospitals will be the COVID-19-exclusive hospitals. Those who are already admitted will be shifted to private hospitals empaneled under Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka till the emergency period of COVID-19 is over.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">One patient unstable</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, patient 47 in Karnataka is unstable. She has been put on a ventilator. She is the first to be put on a ventilator in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is a 63-year-old woman, a resident of Bengaluru who had travelled to Athens in Greece, and London, and arrived in Bengaluru on March 18.</p>
<p class="title">Eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Monday, taking the total tally to 91.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Four cases were reported from a pharmaceutical company in Nanjangud, Mysuru district, where six employees have already tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mysuru district has 12 patients, second highest in the state after Bengaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three of a family in Hosapete town, and the three-year-old son of the third casualty (from Sira) tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In desperation, the Health Department is taking swabs from packages of bulk materials imported by the company from China. It is not known when the packages arrived in India.</p>.<p class="bodytext"><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-india-news-live-updates-statewise-total-number-of-cases-deaths-statistics-lockdown-latest-news-817763.html#1"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Jawaid Akhtar, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, said, “Swabs are being taken from the packages of bulk material imported by the company from China.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Henceforth, all the district hospitals will be the COVID-19-exclusive hospitals. Those who are already admitted will be shifted to private hospitals empaneled under Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka till the emergency period of COVID-19 is over.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">One patient unstable</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, patient 47 in Karnataka is unstable. She has been put on a ventilator. She is the first to be put on a ventilator in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is a 63-year-old woman, a resident of Bengaluru who had travelled to Athens in Greece, and London, and arrived in Bengaluru on March 18.</p>