Four new COVID-19 positive cases in Karnataka; total number climb to 388

Bengaluru, 19 April 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: Four new coronavirus positive cases have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of infections in the state to 388 on Sunday.

The Health department informed that four new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon and till date 388 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 14 deaths and 105 discharges.

All the four patients belong to Mysuru, the department said in its mid-day update. Two men (aged 46 and 20) have a travel history to Delhi and the other two (39-year old man and 23-year old woman) are from Nanjanagudu in Mysuru and contacts of patients already tested positive. The man from Nanjanagudu is the secondary contact of a patient already tested positive.

Nanjangud has been declared a coronavirus hotspot after several cases linked to a pharma company there tested positive.

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 507 and the number of cases to 15,712 in the country on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry.

Nineteen deaths have been reported since Saturday evening -10 from Maharashtra, five from Gujarat, two from West Bengal and one each from Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, the ministry said.