Karnataka, for the first time since January 22, recorded more than 900 new Covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period. Saturday’s tally of 921 fresh infections took the state’s caseload to 9,59,338.
The state had last reported 900-plus cases on January 8 (970) and January 22 (902). The positivity rate for the day stood at 1.26% but its weekly average stood at 0.9% till March 12. In the last seven days alone it has added 4,607 new cases to the tally.
Bengaluru Urban registered 630 fresh cases which is 68% of the total cases reported in the last 24 hours. As many as 992 patients were discharged on Saturday taking the total number of recoveries to 9,38,890. There are 8,042 active carriers of the virus in the state which includes 5,853 in Bengaluru Urban alone. So far, 12,387 have succumbed to the disease.
On March 13, the state capital conducted 39,881 tests which is marginally lesser than its daily target of 40,000. 72,650 tests were carried out in the day across Karnataka.
In Bengaluru Urban, there are 10,203 people in active quarantine as of March 12.
A total of 29 patients have tested positive for the UK strain of virus while three contracted South Africa strain of Covid.
On day 57 of the vaccination drive on Saturday, 39,253 were vaccinated (till 5.30 pm) taking the total number of vaccinated to 13,40,542.
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