A 22-year-old Mumbai resident, studying medicine in Pune, has turned out to be the first Covid-19 case in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. "This youth, a resident of Mumbai, had come to drop his mother at a relatives place," a health official told IANS on Wednesday.

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According to the official, the student brought his mother, a diabetic, to the district thinking it would be safer to keep her in a green zone than Covid-19 hotspot Mumbai. "They took a train to Bengaluru and drove to the district from there, along with his uncle who came to pick them up," he said.