Mangaluru : A 25-year-old youth from Karwar, who was admitted to Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru following his apprehensions of having contracted the Nipah infection, tested negative for the infection on Wednesday. The youth, who works at a laboratory kit manufacturing unit in Goa, had returned home for Ganesha festival. His samples were sent for testing […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada district reported 248 new coronavirus cases and one death and Udupi recorded 106 new cases and one death on Friday, Aug 27. A total of 15,09,045 samples have been tested so far, out of which 13,99,845 have turned out to be negative. The total number of positive cases in the district has risen […]

Mangaluru : Karnataka has made negative RT-PCR certificate mandatory for all arrivals from the two States. The certificate should not be older than 72 hours irrespective of vaccination status. Additional Chief Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Jawaid Akhtar issued a circular in this regard on July 31. “The negative certificate is mandatory for all the […]

Mangaluru :  Dakshina Kannada district reported 555 fresh coronavirus cases on Thursday. The total number of positive cases has risen to 73,099. This further has raised the number of active cases to 8,954. A total of 8,38,534 samples have been tested. Out of which 7,65,435 are negative. As many as 1695 people were discharged on […]

Mangaluru :  Dakshina Kannada district reported 295 fresh coronavirus cases on Monday raising the tally to 41,579. Out of these, 4,032 cases are currently active. A total of 718,605 samples have been tested. Out of which 677,026 are negative. As many as 238 people were discharged on Monday, taking the total number of recoveries to […]

Mangaluru : The 41 people who returned from the UK,  tested negative for Covid-19 on Wednesday. The reports of six passengers are awaited. A total of 66 persons had arrived in the Mangaluru from the UK. “The swabs of the remaining passengers will be collected on Thursday for testing,” DK District Health Officer (DHO) Dr […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada reported 34 new coronavirus cases and Udupi reported 8 new corona virus cases on Saturday. The  tally risen to 32,556. Out of these, 437 cases are currently active in  Dakshina Kannada. A total of 4,29,859 samples have been tested. Out of which, 3,97,303 are negative. As many as 33 people were discharged on […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada district reported 66 new coronavirus cases and Udupi district reported 29 new cases  on Friday. The district tally risen to 31,721. Out of these, 583 cases are currently active. As many as 31 people were discharged on Friday, taking the total number of recoveries to 30,494. A total of 354,166 samples have been tested. Out of […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada district reported 220 fresh coronavirus positive cases and five deaths and Udupi district reported 211 fresh coronavirus cases and one death on Saturday. As per the district health bulletin, As many as  24,016 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital, including 212 on Saturday. A total of 628 deaths have occurred so […]

Chikkamagaluru : The authorities in the town of Mudigere, Chikkamagaluru district, were shocked after the swab sample of a doctor in a Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) tested positive for COVID-19. The positive diagnosis immediately set off alarm bells.Authorities scrambled to complete the contact tracing and eventually quarantined a total of 485 primary contacts and 961 secondary […]