Bengaluru, May 28: As many as 115 new coronavirus cases were reported in Karnataka on Thursday taking the infection count to 2,533, Karnataka Minister S Suresh said.
The total coronavirus cases include 834 discharges, 1,650 active cases, 47 deaths so far due to the disease and two deaths due non-COVID causes, Suresh Kumar, who is minister for primary and secondary education, said during the daily COVID-19 briefing.
According to him, 29 cases were reported in Udupi on Thursday, followed by 24 in Dakshina Kannada district, 13 in Hassan, 12 in Bidar, nine in Bengaluru Urban, seven in Yadagiri, six in Chitradurga, five in Kalaburagi, four in Haveri, three in Chikkamagaluru, two in Vijayapura and one in Raichur.
The minister said among the new cases, 95 are inter-state passengers and two international passengers.
According to the health department, 84 infected people have returned from Maharashtra and eight from Tamil Nadu.
Among those discharged today, 13 are in Davangere, 12 in Dakshina Kannada, nine each in Yadagiri and Vijayapura, five in Gadag, three in Belagavi, one each in Mysuru and Bagalkote.
Two are severe acute respiratory infection cases.
There were, however, no coronavirus related deaths in the state today, the minister said.
Kumar said the government has issued another circular making changes in the quarantine rules.
"A person who has completed seven days of institutional quarantine and is asymptomatic can be permitted for home quarantine without a COVID test, subject to undergoing medical check-up," the minister said.
According to the circular, all elderly people of above 60 years of age and those with comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, heart ailment and renal diseases, are required to be clinically evaluated diligently prior to shifting them to home quarantine.
Such people will be under mandatory home quarantine for seven days, the circular read.
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Why such type goondagiri is taking place in karnatka. Why police are soft on the terror group who are behind such gundagiri. why are they not allowing people to live in peace. Police should trace the culprits from nearby cctv and arrest under goonda act. such miscreants need to be punished to teach lesson to their colleagues. In the meantime, why these youngersters are doing unneessary things and put themselves in truble. Talking to a girl from another community is a crime nowadays and sangh parivar members have the right to beat anyone talking to girl from different community. These miscreants have blessings from bjp. Situation may go out of contral in case Police do not contral these goondas from doing immoral policegiri.
It was wrong that people came in group to hit the boy just because he was talkinng to a girl
Trace out the whole group and retaliate beat them in same manner in Mangalore we not require such taliban kesari attacks.
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