With record 14,738 new cases in a day, Karnataka's corona tally crosses 11-lac mark


Bengaluru, Apr 16 (IANS): With a record 14,738 new cases in a day, total Covid cases in Karnataka crossed the 11-lakh mark, while nearly 10-lakh recovered so far, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.

"The state's Covid tally shot up to 11,09,650, with 96,561 active cases after 14,738 patients tested positive on Wednesday, while 9,99,958 recovered, with 3,591 discharged in the last 24 hours," said the daily bulletin.

As epicentre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 10,497 new cases on Wednesday, taking its Covid tally to 5,12,521, including 71,827 active cases, while 4,35,730 recovered, with 1,807 discharged during the day.

Of 66 lives lost to the infection during the day, 30 were in Bengaluru, taking the state's death toll to 13,112 and the city's toll to 4,963 since the pandemic broke out in mid-March a year ago.

Of 555 patients in the intensive care units (ICUs), 174 are in Bengaluru hospitals, 81 in Kalaburagi, 43 in Kolar, 31 in Mysuru, 25 in Dharwad, 23 in Bidar and 21 in Tumakur, with the rest in the remaining 24 districts in the state.

Out of 1,29,400 tests conducted in the day across the state, 11,192 were through rapid antigen detection and 1,18,208 through RT-PCR method.

Positivity rate shot up to 11.38 per cent while case fatality rate declined to 0.44 per cent across the state on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, 73,687 people, including 28,365 senior citizens above 60 years of age and 43,904 in the 45-59 years age group were vaccinated during the day across the state.

"Cumulatively, 62,74,260 people received the jab since the vaccine drive was launched on January 16 across the southern state," added the bulletin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • John, Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 16 2021

    Worldometers says current worldwide corona active cases 21.4 million, 21.3 million mild cases (99.5%) Serious or Critical 106Thousand (0.5%) Majority of these 0.5% cases may be with comorbidities. Communist and elite controlled media pushes daily cases news to raise fear of virus for vaccine promotions and big money ? So Big Pharma gets billions of dollors business ? That to vaccines seem no effect at all on mutants. These Big Pharma has lied that vaccines are 70 to 95% effective. What evil plans these communists have with these hurriedly tested, experimental emergency use vaccines, they themselves know. Morever no vaccine injury liability on these Big Pharma industry with these ineffective vaccines. Overall looks like communists have preplanned this virus and vaccines to control the world through depopulation also trying to knock out few world leaders and politicians with this virus and vaccine? Like Arab Spring it happened in middle east and africa few years back to change key leadership and bring their puppets to form their new world order or one world government?

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  • AN, Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 16 2021

    Just go and ask anyone in the healthcare sector especially the ones in maharastra and UP , people are DYING , hospital beds are full , no oxygen . Would you face an ordeal as such ,you wouldn't be posting stuff like this on such forums .

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  • John, Mangalore

    Fri, Apr 16 2021

    If mild cases fill the hospitals due to the fear of Virus or death other severe cases naturally suffer also this creates shortages and due to lack of essential medical utilities to them and definately more casualties. We need to wait and see, what adverse reaction of vaccinating medical staff with this experimental, hurried tested vaccines, is it to create more chaos? Good, time tested vaccines are always better. Now more mutants, more augumented vaccines, third short, fourth short etc what happens to human immune system God alone can tell, but definately big money to pharma and their agents due to this communist man made crisis seems for the greed of power and control of the world without a bullet.

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  • Bala K, Urwa

    Fri, Apr 16 2021

    Useless govt not containing or taking measures to contain Covid in Bangalore and Mumbai.This is the main reason for this situation.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Apr 16 2021

    Double Mutant Coronavirus Strain adds to India's COVID-19 Woes ...

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