Dakshina Kannada district recorded its fifth COVID-19 death on Thursday.
According to a statement issued by the Health and Family Welfare Department, an 80-year-old woman, a resident of Kulashekhara in Mangaluru, succumbed to the infection at the COVID Hospital. She is the second coronavirus victim in the limits of Mangaluru City Corporation.
The woman, who was suffering from high blood pressure and stroke, had tested positive for coronavirus on April 26.
