A 63 year old man with comorbidities and who tested positive for Covid19 died at a private hospital here, taking the coronavirus related death toll in the state to four, officials said on Saturday.
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A 63-year-old man who tested positive for
Covid-19
and had multiple co-morbidities died at a private hospital in Bengaluru, raising the state’s coronavirus-related death toll to four, health officials said on Saturday.
He was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru Urban (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike limits) on May 21 after he complained of weakness and died on May 29, they said.
According to the health department statement, the elderly patient who was fully vaccinated was on post operative chemotherapy and had co-morbidities like pulmonary TB with squamous cell carcinoma of buccal mucosa.
The health department stated that the cause of death was sagittal sinus and internal jugular vein thrombosis with cancer cachexia, noting that the Covid-19 infection was an incidental finding.
Meanwhile, the health department bulletin pegged active Covid-19 cases at 238 in Karnataka as of May 31, with 58 new cases reported on Saturday.
The day also saw a total of 420 tests being done for Covid, including 354 RTPCR and 66 RAT tests. Saturday’s positivity rate stood at 13.8 per cent and fatality rate at 1.7 per cent, it added.
With inputs from agencies
