March 29, 2020 9:13 AM

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With total 76 confirmed COVID 19 cases, Karnataka witnesses 3 deaths, 5 discharges

<span style="color: #222222;">In Karnataka, 76 COVID 19 positive cases are confirmed till yesterday afternoon, which includes three deaths and five discharges. In the designated hospitals, 68 positive cases who are in isolation are stable. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the wake of national lockdown till April 14th, the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation is distributing around one lakh food packets through Indira canteens. Helpline number 155214 has been established for the migrant labourers for food assistance. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Railway Protection Force staff in Bengaluru is providing food to about 250 daily wage labourers. Several labourers coming from Goa and Maharashtra are being accommodated in Belagavi. They are provided medical check-up before being sent to their villages in Raichur, Vijayapura and Bagalkote.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports that the Bengaluru Railway Division hospital has earmarked three wards with 50 beds with isolation facilities for the corona patients. About 200 rooms in the training centre and the institute of Disaster Management are kept as stand-by for quarantine facilities. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Seventeen hotels in Bengaluru will be rented out to isolate primary and secondary contacts of the COVID 19 positive persons till their samples are tested. The war room in Bengaluru has trained doctors manning Urban Primary Health Centres on how to handle patients walking in with COVID 19 symptoms. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Overall 187 frontline warriors were trained in the war room on standard operating procedures to deal with Coronavirus suspected patients.</span><br />

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