Dakshina Kannada’s covid death rate of 2.82% nearly double than state average

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September 5, 2020

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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‘Israel’s sole objective is erasing entire Palestinian presence’

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November 21,2024

Hamas says the Israeli regime’s sole objective lies in “erasing” the entirety of the Palestinian population from across the Palestinian territories.

Khalil al-Hayya, a ranking official with the Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement, made the remarks to the Palestinian al-Aqsa TV on Wednesday.

“The occupation targets everyone—it strikes hospitals, civil defense, women, children, and the elderly,” he said, adding that the regime sought to “empty Gaza of its residents, and displace the Palestinian people to fulfill its dreams of building a Zionist Jewish state across all of Palestine.”

The remarks came amid the regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the coastal sliver that has so far claimed the lives of nearly 44,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

“This unprecedented aggression in modern times evokes scenes from the dark ages of human history, having crossed all red lines and exceeded every expectation of brutality in the modern era,” the Palestinian official lamented.

He also regretted that the regime had added “systematic and dangerous starvation to its aggression, falsely claiming before the world that it allows 250 [aid] trucks into Gaza daily. In reality, the number of trucks is far fewer.”

Hayya, meanwhile, regretted that “scenes of children torn apart, women screaming over their children, and heart-wrenching destruction have failed to stir enough humanity to stop these crimes.”

He decried the United States for vetoing the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions that are aimed at bringing about a potential ceasefire in the war, saying this indicated Washington’s “partnership in the aggression” and a simultaneous siege that the Israeli regime has been enforcing on Gaza.

Addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the official asserted that, despite what the Israeli official is after, Hamas would not hand over the regime’s captives “without [the regime’s] stopping the war.”

He called Netanyahu “the main obstacle” in the way of cessation of the aggression, saying the Israeli premier “blocks any progress for political reasons,” and citing his preventing conclusion of a ceasefire agreement in July.

Hayya also warned that the regime sought to expand the war beyond Gaza, but asserted that its goals are “impossible and will never happen.”

“Today, the enemy exposes its true intentions of extermination and displacement, but it will fail,” he stressed.

“The Palestinian people are resilient and will not surrender, as they believe in their humanitarian and political cause. The enemy and its allies will not succeed in achieving their goals. This steadfast people will endure, and the occupation will not prevail against them.”

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