Bengaluru, Mar 25 : Karnataka recorded its highest single-day tally to date, as 10 people tested positive, taking the total number of cases to 51 in the state.
“Till date 51 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state which includes one death and three discharged," the health department said in a statement on Wednesday.
The rise in cases adding to the growing national tally of people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
The daughter of a former union minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Karnataka has also tested positive.
Bengaluru accounts for 32 of the total 51 cases recorded in the state so far,including three who have fully recovered and released.
Dakshina Kannada has five confirmed cases, Chikkaballapura and Kalaburagi has three cases each, Mysuru has and Uttara Kannada has two cases each and four other districts have one case each.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a 21-day lockdown of the country to keep people indoors and contain the spread of the virus in the community.
The government has also been trying to scale up testing.
Medical education minister K.Sudhakar on Wednesday told Mint that Karnataka will scale up testing by 10-fold with the help of government and private labs approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
A total of 2,438 people have been tested in Karnataka and 2242 have tested negative, according to state health department. 214 people are lodged in medical hospitals.
Mangaluru, Jan 18: A few days after Islamic orator Zakir Naik was barred from Mangaluru, the police have barred the entry of Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s International Working President Praveen Togadia into the city between January 18 and January 24.
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Justice is done fairly.
Commissioner Chandrashekhar is fair enough.
If Dr. Zakir Naik a peace preaching person, can not enter a place, then hate preachers can and should never enter that land.
I do not Understand why you media raising this type of Issues, why Ravan Thogadia Banned to Enter Hindustan's most popular City,
Really it is not Acceptable we are all Hindustanis not other Stanis, but you commented to Master Blaster Pump well there are lot of Pump wells, this is Irreducible to all in Hindustan if one Pump well become Criminal do not blame all, My Dearest Reader please find out \How the Name Pump Well\" started calling there was a big story behind it You Buffoons with out knowing the History Calling to all Idiots as Pump Well totally not acceptable my dear.
Jai Hindustan"
Dear Pump well, We believe district administration got permission from STRONG Bajrangi's to ban entry of P(ravan) Togadia.
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