Karnataka posts 19,067 Covid-19 cases and 81 deaths, biggest daily spike ever

The Covid-19 spike in the state continued unabated in the state with the state recording a record 19,067 fresh cases on Sunday. Bengaluru Urban reported as many as 12,793 cases.

The state’s case numbers have climbed acutely from April 14, with the doubling rate now appearing to have dropped from seven to nine days to under five days.

The new numbers increased the state’s active caseload on Sunday to 1,33,543, constituting an increase of 12.07% over a 24-hour period. The case numbers appear to be edging towards an April 11 prediction by the Minister of Health, Dr K Sudhakar. He had warned that the state could be seeing between 25,000 and 30,000 cases daily if no precautions were taken.

The next highest numbers reported in the state on Sunday were 777 cases in the Mysuru district, followed by 671 in Kalaburagi, 494 in Tumakuru, 469 in Bidar and 348 in Hassan. The state also discharged 4,603 people on Sunday, out of whom 2,560 were in Bengaluru Urban.

The number of Covid-19 deaths has also increased. The state disclosed 81 new deaths on Sunday, out of which five were on Sunday, followed by 21 on Saturday and 22 on Friday. As per the data, most of the deaths are within an average of three days after being diagnosed with the disease. Two people had died at home without ever being diagnosed while another was brought dead.

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Officials had pointed out that the bulk of the new patients were in the 18-60 age group. The fatality list for Sunday showed that 44.4% of working-age people were also among those who had died.

The rest were senior citizens, with the oldest being a 93-year-old woman from Mysuru who had symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). The youngest of the disclosed fatalities was a 22-year old man in Bengaluru who also had symptoms of SARI. In fact, 58 of the fatalities had symptoms of SARI.

In Bengaluru

Since the start of April, Bengaluru Urban’s share of the daily caseload has increased from an average of 64% to 68% daily, which shows that the disease is largely entrenched in the city.

On Sunday, a total of 1,45,645 tests were conducted over a 24-hour period, of which over one lakh were done within the limits of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) alone.