Every day new cases tend to arrive in the southern cities. The Karnataka government has made it mandatory for private medical institutions to administer COVID-19 tests on all patients displaying indications of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). In an order assigned by the state Health and Family Welfare department, it was declared that, "All private medical establishments treating ILI/SARI patients are instructed to either test patients for COVID-19 infection if they have the in-house testing facility as per testing rates notified by the government or draw swab of such patients for sending them to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) approved private or government labs."
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Corona cases are continuing to surge in the state of Karnataka. The order affirmed that the number of COVID-19 cases are increasing in the state and that symptomatic carriers who have a higher viral load are the major source of the spread. So far, private medical institutions were asked to enter details of ILI/SARI patients on a health portal. Such patients were sent to swab collection centers in the state for testing. The government order said, "However, it is noted that in many cases, the patients are not being tested, resulting in late identification of COVID-19 infection and consequently more fatalities."
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The southern state reported its highest increase in COVID-19 cases in a single day on Tuesday with 10,453 new cases. Even Bengaluru recorded its highest rise in infections with 4,868 new cases reported in a 24-hour period. Of the 7,201 symptomatic people tested in Bengaluru on September 28, 3,071 tested positive for the coronavirus. The positivity rate among symptomatic persons was highest in the Bengaluru Rural district where 302 people of the 507 symptomatic patients tested were found to be infected with the virus. Karnataka currently has over 1 lakh active COVID-19 cases.
