KEY STORY
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Although COVID cases have declined in Mysuru, a spike in fatalities has worried people in the district as 35 COVID deaths were reported in a week (February 1 to 6). The daily case tally which was around 3,500 to 4,000 cases earlier has come down to less than a thousand cases, bringing some respite.
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According to the district health bulletin, of the 35 who have succumbed to the virus, nearly half of them are above 75 years while a few below 40 years including a 12-year-old and a 35-year-old have succumbed to coronavirus. A person who died in a road accident due to head injury, tested positive and it was counted among COVID deaths.
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While most of the deaths were attributed to refractory hypoxia, septic shock, COVID bronchopneumonia and severe COVID infection, nearly 80 percent of them had co-morbidities like hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney or liver ailment.
CONCLUSION
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“Though the COVID deaths have been high over the last one week, it is less than 1 percent. There have been more than 3,700 cases in a week of which 35 have succumbed to COVID and the fatality rate is nearly 0.8 percent. Meanwhile, a few who were unvaccinated were also in ICU and lack of vaccination and late admission to hospital contributed to the death of those with comorbidities,” said a senior health official.
