<p class="title">Six health workers - four staff nurses and two Group D workers of Health department - from the designated Covid Hospital in Davangere have tested positive for novel coronavirus on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district reported 17 fresh infections in the last 24 hours (ending 5 pm on Sunday) taking its Covid-19 tally past 200-mark.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The health workers - five women and a man - have been working at the district hospital for quite sometime. The contact tracing for all six, aged between 31 and 50, is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This apart, five people, including four women, are believed to have contracted the virus from Patient 4093, a 83-year-old woman from Basavarajpet who died of Covid-19 on May 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A nine-year-old boy, a contact of a head constable from Badawane police station (P 3637), has tested positive for Covid-19.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three people have contracted the disease from Patient 1247, a 35-year-old woman from SJM Nagar. A 71-year-old woman from a containment zone also contracted<br />the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the bright side, the district has seen 150 discharges, so far. As on June 7, it has 47 active cases.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>2 Jindal workers test +ve</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">Two Jindal factory workers were among four who tested positive for Covid-19 in Ballari district on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Two workers of Torangallu-based factory, aged 34 and 48, contracted the virus from their colleague who tested positive to the disease recently.<br />A 45-year-old woman, a Mumbai returnee, and a 54-year-old man with a travel history to Andhra, also tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday. All four have been admitted to Ballari Covid-19 Hospital, said Deputy Commissioner S S Nakul.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After a prolonged quiet period, Belagavi saw 38 fresh infections. According to the Health department’s bulletin, all cases reported on Sunday are Maharashtra returnees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, many tested positive after they returned home from institutional quarantine. Hence, the process of tracing and quarantining their primary contacts is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district, as on June 7, has a total case count of 301. Of which, 149 are active cases.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the virus hotspots of Kalyana Karnataka - Yadgir and Kalaburagi districts - recorded 39 cases each with Maharashtra returnees accounting for 75 of them. Two UAE returnees from Kalaburagi also tested positive while contact tracing for an elderly woman is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi district, which witnessed an explosion of cases in the last one week, saw just 13 infections on Sunday. The coastal district, however, tops the Covid-19 case list in the state at 902.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dakshina Kannada and Shivamogga are other two districts to have reported cases in double digits with 17 and 12 respectively.</p>
<p class="title">Six health workers - four staff nurses and two Group D workers of Health department - from the designated Covid Hospital in Davangere have tested positive for novel coronavirus on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district reported 17 fresh infections in the last 24 hours (ending 5 pm on Sunday) taking its Covid-19 tally past 200-mark.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The health workers - five women and a man - have been working at the district hospital for quite sometime. The contact tracing for all six, aged between 31 and 50, is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This apart, five people, including four women, are believed to have contracted the virus from Patient 4093, a 83-year-old woman from Basavarajpet who died of Covid-19 on May 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A nine-year-old boy, a contact of a head constable from Badawane police station (P 3637), has tested positive for Covid-19.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three people have contracted the disease from Patient 1247, a 35-year-old woman from SJM Nagar. A 71-year-old woman from a containment zone also contracted<br />the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the bright side, the district has seen 150 discharges, so far. As on June 7, it has 47 active cases.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>2 Jindal workers test +ve</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">Two Jindal factory workers were among four who tested positive for Covid-19 in Ballari district on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Two workers of Torangallu-based factory, aged 34 and 48, contracted the virus from their colleague who tested positive to the disease recently.<br />A 45-year-old woman, a Mumbai returnee, and a 54-year-old man with a travel history to Andhra, also tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday. All four have been admitted to Ballari Covid-19 Hospital, said Deputy Commissioner S S Nakul.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After a prolonged quiet period, Belagavi saw 38 fresh infections. According to the Health department’s bulletin, all cases reported on Sunday are Maharashtra returnees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, many tested positive after they returned home from institutional quarantine. Hence, the process of tracing and quarantining their primary contacts is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district, as on June 7, has a total case count of 301. Of which, 149 are active cases.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the virus hotspots of Kalyana Karnataka - Yadgir and Kalaburagi districts - recorded 39 cases each with Maharashtra returnees accounting for 75 of them. Two UAE returnees from Kalaburagi also tested positive while contact tracing for an elderly woman is underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi district, which witnessed an explosion of cases in the last one week, saw just 13 infections on Sunday. The coastal district, however, tops the Covid-19 case list in the state at 902.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dakshina Kannada and Shivamogga are other two districts to have reported cases in double digits with 17 and 12 respectively.</p>
