COVID-19 tally breaches 1,000 mark in Karnataka with record single day spike of 69 cases
Bengaluru, May 15 () The total number of COVID-19infections breached the 1,000 mark in Karnataka, as the statesaw the biggest single-day spike of 69 new cases, includingof a dead person, the state health department said on Friday.
A 52-year-old man from Chitaguppa town of Bidar, with ahistory of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection and travel toHyderabad, had died on May 12 at a designated hospital in thedistrict.
He tested positive for COVID-19 today, the departmentsaid in its bulletin.
"As of May 15 evening, cumulatively 1,056 COVID-19positive cases have been confirmed in the state, whichincludes 36 deaths and 480 discharges," it said.
Out of the 539 active cases, 528 patients are inisolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 11 arein Intensive Care Units.
The 69 new cases include 16 from Dakshina Kannada, 13each from Bengaluru urban and Mandya, seven each from Hassanand Bidar, five from Udapi, three from Kalaburagi, two fromChitradurga and one each from Kolar, Shivamogga and Bagalkote.
While 20 cases are with a travel history to Dubai, 19with travel history to Mumbai, three each with travel historyto Chennai and from containment zone in Bidar, and one eachare with history of SARI, ILI, containment zone in Kalaburagiand travel history to Hyderabad; rest are all primary andsecondary contacts of patients already tested positive.
Twenty people who arrived in Mangaluru by a specialrepatriation flight from Dubai three days ago are among thosewho tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, officials in thecoastal city said.
Fifteen of them were from Dakshina Kannada (DK) districtand five from neighboring Udupi district, which remainedCOVID-19 free for over a month, they said, adding all had beenadmitted to designated hospitals.
The returnees were taken to hotels and other facilitiesfor mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine after theylanded at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Tuesdaynight and their swab samples were subsequently sent for test.
Meanwhile, health department officials said all the 90COVID-19 positive patients from Mysuru District Hospital havebeen discharged without a single mortality.
With this the district has no active cases.
"happy to announce that all 90 patients of Mysore haverecovered.
it's a big news to the state which fills inspirationand courage to tackle COVID-19.
let's congratulate all health warriors for theirselfless sacrifice and dedication," the department tweeted.
From across the state, the most number of infections havebeen reported in Bengaluru urban with 202 cases, followed byBelagavi with 114.
A total of 1,33,724 samples were tested so far, out ofwhich 5,351 were tested on Friday alone.
So far 1,32,074 samples have reported negative, out ofwhich 5,308 reported negative on Friday. KSU APRRAVINDRANATH APRRAVINDRANATH