Udupi: An eight year old girl and other four new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Udupi district on Tuesday, May 19.

All the four people including an 8-year-old who were tested positive for coronavirus had returned from Mumbai recently.

The patient 17-year-old girl from Chitradurga. She has visited KMC hospital for cancer treatment on May 16. She was diagnosed as COVID positive on Tuesday.

As per the midday bulletin, the patients who were tested positive are an 8-year-old child, two men aged 24 and 38, and a woman aged 24.

All the four have been admitted to designated COVID hospital in the district and are undergoing treatment there.

With the new case, 16 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported so far in the district, including a one death. Three have recovered, and 12 are active.