Mangalore, June 23: Another victim, a 70-year-old man, was killed by corona virus in Dakshina Kannada district today. With this, the number of corona case victims in the district has increased to nine.
The man who died today was in Bangalore and had received medication from a local doctor shortly after the cold began.
He was treated at a private hospital in Mangalore on the second week of June. Then he was admitted to Wenlock, the Covid hospital after a corona positive on a sample of throat fluid. But he died this afternoon without treatment. He was an avid smoker and had diabetes.