Bengaluru, Jul 9: The total number of Covid-19 infections in Karnataka on Thursday breached the 30,000 mark as the state reported its biggest single-day spike of over 2,200 new cases and 17 related fatalities, taking the death toll to 486, the Health department said.
The day also saw a record 957 patients getting discharged after recovery, out of which 606 were from Bengaluru Urban.
Out of the 2,228 fresh cases reported on Thursday, a whopping 1,373 were from Bengaluru Urban alone.
The previous biggest single-day spike was recorded on July 8 with 2,062 cases.
As of July 9 evening, cumulatively 31,105 Covid-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 486 deaths and 12,833 discharges, the Health department said in its bulletin.
It said, out of 17,782 active cases, 17,325 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 457 are in ICU.
"Death rate in Karnataka is 1.49 percent, while in Bengaluru is 1.28 percent, and our target is to bring it below 1 percent," Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar told reporters.
"The reason for spike in cases in Bengaluru and other places in recent days is because during the last four months of lockdown we had controlled it very well, but as we relaxed lockdown for economic activities we did not follow certain precautionary measures like distance among other things," he said.
The Minister also conceded that there were lapses on part of the government also in terms of tracing and tracking.
"It has to be improved especially in Bengaluru and we are taking steps in this regard."
Among the 17 dead seven were from Dharwad, two each from Hassan, Kalaburagi, Mysuru, and one each from Raichur, Uttara Kannada, Tumakuru and Davangere.
The deceased include 13 men and 4 women.
The dead are all either with a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) or Influenza-like illness (ILI).
Out of 2,228 fresh cases today, contacts of the majority of the cases are still under tracing.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru Urban accounted for 1,373, followed by Dakshina Kannada (167), Kalaburagi (85) and Dharwad (75).
Bengaluru urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 13,882 infections, followed by Kalaburagi (1,901) and Dakshina Kannada 1,701.
Among discharges Bengaluru urban tops the list with total 2,834, followed by Kalabuagi (1,392) and Udupi (1,206).
A total of 7,79,209 samples were tested so far, out of which 20,028 were tested on Thursday alone.
So far 7,28,887 samples have been reported as negative, and of them 17,568 were reported negative today.
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Your agenda in all election is " We will build Ram Mandir" if we elected to assembly. Now Central is with BJP hand, UP is with BJP hand then what is the issue? Why again and again saying we will build Ram Mandir - Ram Mandir every now and then. Road is free and why dont you take steps to build the temple and finish the issue?
Dear Non Muslim brothers and sisters, believe it or not - These so called politicians will never build Ram Mandir or whatsoever. This is the main Muddah for their election campain. Actually we the voters are fool and fighting each other (Hindu & Muslim), killing , looting innocents etc etc. - Finally who will benefit? These politicians and who is the looser - WE
Dear All - Please think about the development of our state, country and cast your valuable vote to the right candidate who may contribute to the development of our state/country. In this era Mandir-Masjid is not the issue - Issue is development, education, job, food etc etc.
The problem is BALATKARI JANWAR PATRY (BJP), Modi and Amit shah style of running the government on Hitler style has already filled the gandu rashtra people with poison in their brains to send Muslims out of India. This is the real problem. Gandus want their gandu rashtra at any cost now. Arab Muslims ruled India for 900 years and enriched the country with coffee, silk etc. Then British came and looted the country. Then these BJP and RSS are gifted with the divide and rule formula from British. They are now just following the same old formula to eat up whatever is left in the country. All this making hindu rashtra etc is a drama.
Comparing to Japan and other countries India is quite behind, because their aim is development, whereas our aim is Mandir/Masjid and religion. If India continues the same theory, India will never develop. These politicians are taking India on wrong direction.
Tippu is dead , shivaji also is dead. Why not worry about poor people like us who are still alive? We have enough masjid to pray , Allah will accept our prayers from any masjid, plz dont worry about that. Kindly finish the ram mandir as soon as possible. After all this done, kindly focus on jobs, roads, farmers, water, food, social services etc. i hope this is very simple english so u and your like minded friends can understand.
Thanks
kachda chaddi,,
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