Bengaluru, May 16: At least 23 new COVID-19 positive cases have emerged in the past 19 hours, raising Karnataka''s tally to 1,079, a health official said on Saturday.
"New cases reported from Friday 5 p.m. to Saturday noon are 23," said the official.
Among the 1,079 cases, 548 are active and isolated in designated hospitals across the state, 494 patients got discharged and 36 died of the virus.
In the past 19 hours, cases spiked in Benglaluru Urban, the place hosting the highest number of coronavirus cases in the state.
Of the new cases, Bengaluru Urban reported 14 cases, followed by 3 in Hassan and Mandya, Ballari, Bagalkote, Davangere, Dharwad and Udupi, 1 each.
All the 14 cases, men, from Bengaluru Urban were secondary contacts of positive case 653.
All Hassan, Dharwad and Bagalkote cases had a history of inter-state travel to Mumbai, Maharashtra, India''s largest sufferer of Covid.
A 46-year-old man from Ballari had a travel history to Ahmedabad in Gujarat, another major COVID-19 hotspot state in India.
A 40-year-old man from Mandya had inter-district travel history to Kolar and Bengaluru.
A 1-year-old infant girl from Udupi had international travel history to Dubai.
Among the new cases, 15 are contacts of earlier cases.
Of the all cases, 20 are men and three women.
Only four of the 23 cases are above 50 and 18 below 40.
Of the 1,079 cases, 12 per cent patients were senior citizens, 66 per cent men and 34 per cent women with a discharge rate of 44 per cent.
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Lets come to the point, BJP and hindutva people follow savarkar idology... who is the biggest maron of 19th century and he begged for mercy 4 times and said i will lick your boot and please free me...such a third rated man he was....we all know RSS, BJP & Hindutva are marons of india...they dont have courage to stand and fight only attack poor people and there food...
we indian must bring back our lost glory...we all indian must be tippu sultan for the marons of india(RSS).
jai Hind
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