Bengaluru, May 7 () Total number of COVID-19infections have crossed 700-mark in Karnataka, where 12 newpositive cases including a fatality were reported, taking thetoll in the state to 30, as the government said on Thursdaythat future of the lockdown was in the hands of the people.
"It is important that this lockdown-3 is successful.
As many economic activities related to agriculture,industries have been allowed during the ongoing lockdown, itis upto the people to help control coronavirus as well asensure the financial development," state Home MinisterBasavaraj Bommai said.
Speaking to reporters here, he said if the people couldmake sure that lockdown-3 was successful, there would no needfor it to continue.
"If lockdown-3 does not yield results according to ourexpectations, it will be inevitable for the state and centralgovernments to take different measures," Bommai, who is alsothe member of state's COVID-19 task force said.
He also appealed to the people to make the third lockdownsuccessful by following government directives.
According to health department bulletin, as of 5:00 PM onMay 7, cumulatively 705 COVID-19 positive cases have beenconfirmed in the state, it includes 30 deaths and 366discharges.
It said, out of 308 active cases, 302 patients are inisolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 6 arein ICU.
Twelve patients who have recovered were discharged onThursday.
A 55-year-old woman from Davanagere became the 30thCOVID-19 related fatality in the state.
The deceased woman was a known case of diabetes andhypertension, she was admitted with complaint of Severe AcuteRespiratory Infection (SARI) and was on ventilator, thedepartment said.
She died today at designated hospital in Davanagere, itsaid.
Twelve new cases reported include three from Davangere,indulging the deceased patient; also three each fromKalaburagi and Badami (Bagalkote), and one each fromHirebagewadi in Belagavi district, Bengaluru urban andDharwad.
While seven cases are contacts of patients earlier testedpositive, four are with history of Influenza Like Illness(ILI) and one is a SARI case.
Eight among 12 new cases are women and four are men.
Contact tracing has been initiated and is in progress forall the cases, the department said.
From across the state most number of infections have beenreported in Bengaluru urban with 156 cases, followed by Mysuru88 and Belagavi 72.
Out of total 366 patients discharged so far, maximum 81are from Mysuru, 77 from Bengaluru urban, thirty four fromBelagavi.
A total of 93,535 samples were tested so far, out ofwhich 4,758 were tested on Thursday alone.
So far 87,756 samples have reported as negative, and outof them 4,700 were reported negative on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappadirected commercial tax department officials to take strictmeasures to control tax leakages, with economic activitiesrestarting in the state after easing of COVID-19 inducedlockdown.
He asked officials to initiate action against those usingfake E-Way Bill, misuse of time given for movement of freight,CMO in a release said.
The state government wrote to nine states, includingBihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, seeking their coordinationin receiving the labourers who are stranded in the state,after receiving flak from various sections for cancellingtrains for transporting migrant workers.
State Revenue Department Principal Secretary N ManjunathPrasad has written to the nodal officers of nine states(Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, Manipur, Tripura, West Bengal, MP,Rajasthan, Odisha) seeking to receive the migrant labourers.
With documents showing that consent has been received torun one special train to Bihar and MP everyday from May 8-15,sources said, first train is likely to depart to these stateson Friday.
Responding to a query in this connection, Minister SureshKumar, who is government spokesperson for COVID-19 relateddevelopments said, basically labourers at the constructionsites would be ones who are eligible for this.
"Their list based on Aadhar card details are available atthe police station, so it is clear, and there is informationof those who are eager to go, so based on that, once trainschedules are prepared they will be transported fromconstruction sites to railway stations," he said. KSUROH ROH