Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Apr 24: The number of active coronavirus cases in the city has shot up to 1,49,624 with the detection of 16,662 new cases on Friday April 23. Now the district tops the list of active cases of Covid in the whole country. Pune has the second highest active cases of coronavirus with 1.1 lac positive patients. While Delhi has nearly one lac active cases, the corresponding figure for Mumbai is 81,174.
Out of the total Covid cases in Karnataka, Bengaluru is registering 70% of them. If the same situation continues, within May 1, the number of daily cases will reach 25,000. Even if 5% of those patients are to be provided with emergency medical facilities, it will be difficult according to Dr Giridhar Babu of the technical expert committee.
The only best way to avoid further spread of the infection is to be at home. The second wave of coronavirus is rapidly increasing in India. On Friday, 3.46 lac new cases were recorded throughout the country. With this the total number of infected patients went up to 9.94 lac. More than 2,000 people lost their lives on Friday.