Bengaluru, April 16, 2020: A 66-year-old man from Manipur, who was on treatment in Bengaluru, became the thirteenth Covid-19 related fatality in Karnataka, Health Department officials said on Thursday.
The elderly patient was died on April 15 at Victoria Hospital in the city, officials said. “He was referred from a private hospital and was admitted in Victoria Hospital and was on ventilator support since April 10,” they added.
A 80-year old woman in Belagavi and a 65-year old man from Chikkaballapura had also died on Wednesday.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa today inaugurated a mobile Covid-19 testing booth in Bengaluru. These mobile booths will start working in all wards of the Bengaluru to take samples for coronavirus.