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Heavy rains lash coastal Karnataka, lightning strike kills student in Kasargod

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April 28, 2014

Mangalore, Apr 28: Heavy rains, coupled with lightning and thunder, lashed several parts of coastal Karnataka including the city of Mangalore in wee hours of Monday. rains

A pleasant weather prevailed on Monday morning dipping the temperatures by few notches.

Fortunately, no casualties due to the heavy lightning were reported in the region. But, a house belonging to one Damodar Acharya in Neralakatte in Bantwal talul was collapsed injuring one Chethan.

Water stagnated at low-lying areas in many of the areas in Mangalore.

Also, there has been unexpected rainfall in many parts of the state for the past two days bringing relief to people from the scorching heat.

Casualties

Lightning struck in Kasargod district killing a Plus Two student. The district also saw wide-spread damage due to the heavy wind and lightning accompanying the rains.

D N Naveen, a student of a private college in Vitla town, was killed by the strong lightning while he was in his house at around 9.30 p.m., police said.

His father Dayananda and mother Shalini, who were inside the house, also sustained minor burn injuries.

The house of Sreekanth, a lawyer, at Surlu locality was damaged after a coconut tree broke and fell over the building under the impact of the strong winds.

In a similar incident, a coconut tree fell over a moving car at Kottakanni locality here critically injuring the two occupants of the vehicle. The driver of the car lost his control and the vehicle dashed against the building of a road-side canteen.

The winds also capsized three fishing boats off Kasaba beach here. The locals managed to bring back the boats to the shore by Sunday evening.

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July 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 16: Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the C V Raman Hospital in Bengaluru and urged the administration to follow COVID-19 guidelines properly. He also took stock of the hospital's preparedness to fight the deadly virus.

The minister noticed a number of flaws and warned the hospital to go strictly by the guidelines. He saw that despite 15 high-flow oxygen beds lay vacant, only two patients were admitted. He then asked the hospital to send asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients to COVID-19 care centres so that beds were available to those who need these.

"Doctors' profession is a noble one and in a situation like this everyone should perform their duty with utmost humanity and compassion. During this crisis, we should all be kind and empathetic," the minister said. He also ordered the suspension of two officials for not following the guidelines and not giving the right treatment to patients.

He noticed that the hospital lab collected less number of swabs and instructed them to collect a minimum of 500 swabs per day. Pointing out the under-utilised beds and ICUs, he observed that because of such negligence by officials, the government is being blamed despite working day and night for the past four-five months.
During this visit, the minister also interacted with the patients through video call and enquired about the services provided to them by the hospital.

"Surprise visits will continue. I will be in touch with every lab and get the right number of tests done on a daily basis," the minister said while speaking to the media.

He also urged the people who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma to save other lives, adding that donors will receive a reward of Rs 5000 as a token of appreciation.

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February 5,2020

Udupi, Feb 5: A school boy died after being bitten by a venomous snake while he was returning home from a playground at Perdoor village in Udupi district.

The victim has been identified as Abhinav (9), son of Raju Shetty and Gita Shetty couple from the same village. 

Abhinav had returned from school yesterday evening as usually. He then went out to play. At around 7 p.m. while he was walking towards home, a snake bit him sources said. 

He was immediately taken to KMC Hospital in Manipal, where doctors pronounced him brought dead. 

A case of unnatural death has been registered in the jurisdictional police station.

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August 1,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, Aug 1: Karnataka’s twin costal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have recorded 10 more deaths related to covid-19. 

With four more deaths, Dakshina Kannada’s covid-19 death toll mounted to 159. Udupi’s covid-19 death toll mounted to 35 with 6 new deaths. 

Meanwhile, DK recorded 139 new covid positive cases. Among them 91 are from Mangaluru, 19 from Bantwal, 14 from Beltangady, nine from Puttur, and six from other districts.

With this, the total number of the covid-10 cases in DK reached 5,852. Out of these only 3,008 cases are currently active. 

On the other hand, Udupi recorded 136 new covid-19 cases. The total number of covid-19 cases reported in the district mounted to 4,492. 

According to the official bulletin, a total of 32,401 samples have been collected so far. Among them 27,463 have turned out to be negative and 446 reports are awaited.

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