KASARGOD: One more person has succumbed to COVID-19 in the state. The virus was confirmed on K Sasidhara (66), native of Thalipadappu in Kasargod, who died on Sunday. He died at a private hospital in Kasargod. He was admitted in the hospital on Saturday afternoon following fever and breathlessness. He died Sunday morning at 9.30 am. With this, a total of 64 have died of the virus in the state.

There are almost 400 people in his contact list. He was a contractor of Bharat Beedi. He tested positive in the antigen test conducted at the public health. Many from his firm and some of his relatives had reached the hospital to see the body without knowing that he had COVID.