The State Death Audit Committee, which has analysed 10 of the 15 deaths that occurred since December 15 in Karnataka, has found COVID-19 to be an incidental finding in nine of the deceased.
Only one death from Dakshina Kannada, which occurred in a private hospital on December 20, has been attributed to COVID-19 by the committee. A 40-year-old patient from Mangaluru, who was COVID-positive and admitted on December 19 with symptoms of SARI, suffered a multi-organ dysfunction and died the next day.
K. Ravi, Chairman of the State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), who also heads the Death Audit Committee, told The Hindu on Tuesday that the Mangaluru death is the only fatality that can be attributed to COVID-19. All the other nine are due to poor management of comorbidities and late admission for complications,” he said.
