BENGALURU:
Karnataka’s Covid figures on Wednesday were 267 new cases, one death, and 111 discharges, taking the total case count to 4,063 and fatalities to 53. Of the day’s fresh cases, as many as 250 are returnees from other states, and 232 are from Maharashtra alone.
Kalaburagi, with the dubious distinction of registering the first Covid-19 death in the country in March, crossed the 500 mark with 105 new infections.
The health department bulletin said that as of June 3, there are 1,514 discharges and 2,494 active cases, of which 2,478 patients are in hospitals and 16 in ICUs.
Wednesday’s fatality was an 80-year-old woman from Davanagere district. She was a contact of an earlier patient and was brought dead to the designated hospital in the district on May 29. Her swab test came back positive.
Of Wednesday’s new cases, Kalaburagi had 105, Udupi 62, Raichur 35, Bengaluru Urban 20, Mandya 13, Yadgir nine, Vijayapura six, Davanagere three, two each from Dakshina Kannada, Mysuru, Bagalkot, Shivamogga and Kolar, and one each from Hassan, Ballari, Dharwad and Bengaluru Rural.
Kalaburagi tops the table with 510 infections, followed by Udupi at 472 and Bengaluru Urban at 417. In discharges, Bengaluru Urban tops with 256, followed by Davanagere with 134 and Kalaburagi with 128.
A total of 3,34,825 samples have been tested so far, 15,197 of them on Wednesday. Of these, 3,25,686 samples have tested negative cumulatively, and 14,719 tested negative on Wednesday.
