Bengaluru: Reverting the declining trend, Karnataka outnumbered 1,875 new Covid cases with 1,502 recoveries in Dakshina Kannada district surpassing Bengaluru in more cases, said the state health bulletin on Sunday. "With 1,875 new cases registered on the weekend, the state's Covid tally rose to 29,06,999, including 24,144 active cases, while 28,46,244 recovered, with 1,502 patients discharged during the day," according to the Health bulletin release.
With 410 positive cases registered on Saturday, Dakshina Kannada, bordering Covid-hit Kerala on the state's west coast, surpassed Bengaluru for the first time in new cases, followed by 162 in Udupi, 146 in Mysuru and 108 in Hassan across the state. As epi-centre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 409 fresh cases on Saturday, taking the city's Covid tally to 12,27,748, including 8,553 active cases, while 12,03,314 recovered so far, with 377 patients discharged in the last 24 hours.
The infection claimed 25 lives, including 8 in Bengaluru during the day, taking the state's death toll to 36,587 and the city's toll to 15,880 since the pandemic broke out in mid-March over a year ago. According to the reports, Out of 1,55,048 tests conducted across the state during the day, 30,753 were through rapid antigen detection and 1,24,295 through the RT-PCR method. The positivity rate was 1.20 percent and case fatality rate 1.33 percent across the state on Saturday.
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