The man with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI),died at a designated hospital in Kalaburagi on Tuesday, a dayafter being shifted from a private hospital where he wasinitially treated for two days.
"On April 4, he had got admitted to a private hospital,on April 6 he was shifted to ESI hospital, where he passedaway," Primary and Secondary Education Minister Suresh Kumartold reporters here.
The private hospital had been locked and its entiremedical team quarantined, he said, adding a notice had beenserved on it for act of "criminal negligence" (by notreferring the patient to designated hospital) and will befollowed with a police case.
"He was suffering from SARI, on collecting his sample,tests have revealed that he was positive....investigation ison to find how he got infected," the Minister said.
Noting that the hospital in this case did not refer thepatient to the designated hospital and kept treating him fortwo days, he appealed to all private healthcare facilities toinform authorities if anyone showed any indications forCOVID-19.
"As of 5 PM on April 8, cumulatively 181 COVID-19positive cases have been confirmed in the state, it includes 5deaths and 28 discharges," the health department said in abulletin.
Out of the positive cases, 71 are those who had come backfrom foreign countries, while remaining 110 are contacts andthose who had gone to Delhi, the Minister said. Kumar also said an expert committee comprising NarayanaHealth founder-chairman Dr Devi Prasad Shetty and JayadevaInstitute of Cardiovascular Sciences director Dr C N Manjunathamong others, constitutedto devise an exit strategy for thelockdown, has submitted its reports with variousrecommendations to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
The chief minister and officials were examining it whichwas likely to come up before the cabinet meeting on Thursdayafter which the details will be shared, he added. The health department said the six fresh cases reported onWednesday included the elderly man from Kalaburagi who died.
Among the positive cases are a woman from Uttara Kannadawith history of SARI and contact of a Dubai returnee, a 72-year-old woman from Kalaburagi, who is mother of a patientthat tested positive for the disease; a man from Mandya withcontact to two patients.
Others include a man from Chikkaballapura with travelhistory to Delhi and a woman from Bengaluru also with a travelhistory to the national capital.
Contact tracing is in progress for all the cases, thebulletin added. The department said out of 148 active cases in the state,146 COVID-19 positive patients (including 1 pregnant woman)are in isolation at designated hospitals are stable and two inICU (one each on oxygen and ventilators). It said out of total 181 cases in the state, six aretransit passengers of Kerala.
Bengaluru accounted for the highest in the state with 63cases, followed by Mysuru (35), Dakshina Kannada (12) Bidar(ten), Uttara Kannada and Kalaburagi (9 each), Chikkaballapur(8) Belagavi (7), Ballari (6), Bagalkote (5), Mandya (4)Davangere, Bengaluru Rural and Udupi (three each), and Kodagu,Tumakuru, Gadag and Dharwad one each. Those discharged include 16 from Bengaluru, four fromDakshina Kannada, two each from Uttara Kannada, Kalaburagi andDavangere, and one from Bengaluru Rural; while among thosedead are two from Kalaburgari and one each are reported fromBengaluru, Bagalkote and Tumakuru. KSU VS VS