MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada district on Sunday recorded its first death due to Covid-19 with a 50-year-old woman from Kasba in Bantwal taluk succumbing to it. Admitted to district Wenlock Hospital with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) on Saturday, the woman succumbed to it in the early hours on Sunday. She was undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital, deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh , said.Given her SARI condition, the doctors collected her throat swab and sent it for confirmatory test at the lab in the hospital. Even as the doctors awaited the report, the woman breathed her last at 9.15am at the ICU. The report that the authorities received in the afternoon, confirmed her to be Covid-19 positive. The final rites of the woman were carried out at the local crematorium out as per medical protocol prescribed for Covid-19 positive patients.District health and family welfare officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy told TOI that the family members saw her body for two minutes from a distance before it was cremated. “We have identified 19 primary contacts including her husband and son and a doctor who treated her initially and have quarantined them and more could be quarantined. We are also ascertaining news that her son had returned recently from Dubai,” Dr Bairy said.The district also recorded a positive case on the day with P-389, who is wife and contact of P-325 from Uppinangadi. With this, total positive cases in the district has risen to 15 with two active cases and 12 already discharged and one death (P-390). Neighbouring Udupi on the other hand maintained its clean slate with no fresh Covid-19 case since March 29. The district has no active cases as well and all three positive cases have been discharged.In a related development, the district administration sealed down villages in the district as per state government guidelines and appointed seven incident commanders to implement the same effectively. The villages are Thokkottu, Uppinangady, Thumbe, Ajjavar, Sampya, Belthangady and Sajipapadu. DC said all essential items will be supplied to residents of these sealed down villages and care taken to ensure cleanliness and supply of water to them.