<p class="title">The Covid-19 graph in Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi districts continued to move upward with DK reporting 298 fresh cases, while Udupi reported 340 cases on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With this, the active cases in DK rose to 1,267, while in Udupi it is 979.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About 10,287 samples have been tested in Dakshina Kannada. The fresh cases reported on Saturday was 295 in DK, while it was 186 in Udupi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DK District Nodal Officer Dr Ashok said a new Covid-19 cluster has been reported in a private medical college hostel in Mangaluru taluk, wherein 12 were tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A total of 37 samples of the primary contacts of the already positive cases were tested from the cluster, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Of 340 cases in Udupi district, 192 are asymptomatic.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi taluk has the highest number of cases with 262 (positivity rate is 4.88%), while Kundapura has 29 cases (1.90% positivity rate) and Karkala has 49 cases (2.56% positivity rate).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the fresh 340 cases, 279 are in home isolation, nine are in hospital and 52 are in Covid Care Centres in Udupi district.</p>
<p class="title">The Covid-19 graph in Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi districts continued to move upward with DK reporting 298 fresh cases, while Udupi reported 340 cases on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">With this, the active cases in DK rose to 1,267, while in Udupi it is 979.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About 10,287 samples have been tested in Dakshina Kannada. The fresh cases reported on Saturday was 295 in DK, while it was 186 in Udupi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DK District Nodal Officer Dr Ashok said a new Covid-19 cluster has been reported in a private medical college hostel in Mangaluru taluk, wherein 12 were tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A total of 37 samples of the primary contacts of the already positive cases were tested from the cluster, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Of 340 cases in Udupi district, 192 are asymptomatic.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi taluk has the highest number of cases with 262 (positivity rate is 4.88%), while Kundapura has 29 cases (1.90% positivity rate) and Karkala has 49 cases (2.56% positivity rate).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the fresh 340 cases, 279 are in home isolation, nine are in hospital and 52 are in Covid Care Centres in Udupi district.</p>