27 patients discharged on Saturday – Includes patients found positive on June 2

On Saturday 27 patients were discharged from the Belagavi COVID hospital taking the tally of recovered patients to 153 and active cases are now 111.

Surprisingly even patients whose Patient numbers were mentioned in the June 2 health bulletin have also been discharged on Saturday.

Discharged also includes the 2-year-old girl who had returned from Kerala who P Number was mentioned on 27-5-2020 bulletin.

In a fresh circular issued by the Karnataka Government, a COVID-19 patient can be discharged after 10 days of onset of symptoms only if the following criteria are met:

• No fever and symptoms for last 3 days before discharge,
• maintains saturation above 95 percent for last 4 days without oxygen support,
• resolution of breathlessness,
• resolution of clinical signs
• one RT-PCR test shall be done 3 days after being symptom free and the patient has to be discharged if the report is negative.

If positive, the RT-PCR test shall be repeated after 72 hours.

If the patient is asymptomatic, he shall be discharged after the repeat RT-PCR test is performed 7 days after the first test is found to be negative.

In the earlier policy, there had to be two consecutive negative tests 14 days after the first test turned positive for the patient, in order to discharge them.