Mangaluru, Sept 5: Even as the number of Covid-19 cases in Dakshina Kannada showed no signs of decline, the district’s death rate reached 2.82 per cent.
Statistics show that Dakshina Kannada is one of the worst effected districts in Karnataka, which is of the worst covid hit states of India.
The covid-19 death toll in Karnataka has already crossed 6000-mark. However, the death rates fell from 1.85 per cent in July to 1.50 per cent in September first week. Shockingly, Dakshina Kannada’s death rate is higher than that of Karnataka.
An analysis on 381 Covid-19 deaths in Dakshina Kannada was conducted by experts from March 25 to September 2. The analysis showed that 364 deaths (95.53%) were due to comorbidities and 17 deaths were due to non-comorbidities.
According to the district surveillance unit officials, among the 381 deaths, 276 had been classified under covid-19-associated deaths, 84 due to covid-19 coincidental deaths. Only 16 deaths were due to covid-19 alone. While two deaths were due to non-covid-19 reasons, three were brought dead to the hospitals.
The age-wise distribution of covid-19 deaths showed that the highest number of 188 deaths occurred in the age group between 60 to 80 years. While 132 deaths were in the age group of people between 41 to 60 years and 30 deaths in the age group of 21 to 40.
Twenty seven deaths occurred among those who were above 80 years old while four deaths were among below 20 years old, the analysis revealed. Among the Covid-19 fatalities, 73 per cent (277) were men.
Mangaluru taluk recorded the highest number of deaths at 218 (57.21 per cent), while Bantwal reported 46 deaths (12.07 per cent), Puttur 23 deaths (6.03 per cent), Belthangady 11 (2.88 per cent), and Sullia 4 (1.04 per cent).
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