COVID-19 tally breaches 1,000 mark in Karnataka with 45 new cases

Bengaluru, May 15 () The total number of COVID-19cases in Karnataka breached 1,000 mark, with 45 people testingpositive, the state health department said on Friday.

Total number of positive cases in the state stood at1,032.

With 35 deaths and 476 discharges, there were 520 activecoronavirus cases, the department said in its mid-daysituation update.

The new cases include- 16 from Dakshina Kannada, 13 fromBengaluru Urban, five from Udapi, three each from Bidar andHassan, two from Chitradurga, and one each from Kolar,Shivamogga and Bagalkote districts.

Twenty of them are with travel history to Dubai, four toMumbai and three returned from Chennai. One patient has ahistory of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and anotherwas from containment zone in Bidar. Rest are all primary and secondary contacts of patientsalready tested positive, the bulletin said. KSUVS VS