Bengaluru: On Thursday, Karnataka witnessed 49,058 fresh Covid-19 cases which has taken the active caseload to five lakh. The death toll is 17,212 with 328 deaths.
The health department stated that now the infection count is 17,90,104 and there are 5,17,075 active cases in the state. On Thursday, 18,943 people for discharged after recovery. With this, 12,55,797 people have been discharged till now.
Bengaluru urban alone reported 23,706 infections and 139 deaths. Till now the city has reported 8,87,086 infections and 7,145 deaths. There were 3,32,732 active cases.
Mysuru and Tumakuru are the next major hotspots with 2,531 and 2,418 infections and 18 and 14 deaths respectively. The health bulletin state that 1,652 infections were reported in Kalaburagi, 1,526 in Udupi, 1,503 in Hassan, 1,191 in Dakshina Kannada, 963 in Bengaluru rural and 922 in Ballari.
Bagalkote, Belagavi, Chamarajanagar, Davangere, Dharwad, Kodagu, Kolar, Raichur, Shivamogga, Uttara Kannada, Vijayapura and Yadgir witnessed 500 infections. On Thursday, an aggregate of 1,64,441 tests were done which is inclusive of 1,53,370 using the RT PCR and other methods. This has taken the tally to 2.56 crore.
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