65-year-old man dies in K’taka, his 3 wives, 16 kids under quarantine

NEWDELHI: A 65-year-old man from Karnataka’s Tumkur died on Friday morning after contracting Covid-19, a senior official confirmed, taking the number of coronavirus disease-related fatalities in the southern state to three.

K Rakesh Kumar, Tumkur’s deputy commissioner, said the man had stayed at Jama Masjid in Delhi, and returned to Bengaluru by train on March 14.

He is also said to have come in contact with at least 33 people, according to Kumar. Contact tracing has been started for those who came in touch with the man, he added.

The official said all three of his wives and 16 children, along with 10 other members of his family have been quarantined.

In the last 24 hours, Karnataka has reported nine new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 64 in the state, including three deaths and five discharges.

According to an official release, nine new cases of the coronavirus disease were reported between 2pm on March 26 and 2 pm on March 27.

A 10-month-old boy, the youngest in the country to have been infected by the virus, is among them. The release said the infant and his family, who are from Dakshina Kannada, went to Kerala recently.

They have been isolated at a hospital in Dakshina Kannada.

More than 700 people in India have contracted Covid-19, according to data released by the Union ministry of health on Friday, as the country entered the third day of the three-week nationwide lockdown to clamp the spread of the coronavirus disease.