Inflow of people from two states swells K’taka COVID-19 cases
Bengaluru: Domestic travel returnees from two states have increased Covid cases in Karnataka in the past 19 hours, raising the state’s tally to 2,493, an official said on Thursday.
“New cases reported from Wednesday 5 p.m. to Thursday noon, 75,” said a health official.
Covid cases spiked in Udupi, Hassan, Chitradurga and Bengaluru Urban.
Of all the cases, 1,635 are active, 809 discharges and 47 deaths.
As many as 46 new cases had a travel history to Maharashtra and six to Tamil Nadu.
Seventeen of the new cases were contacts of earlier positive cases.
A 39-year-old man from Raichur is suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).
In the past 19 hours, 28 patients got discharged, nine from Yadgir, eight from Davangere, four from Vijayapura, three from Dakshina Kannada, two from Belagavi and one each from Mysuru and Bagalkote.
Among the new cases, 53 were men and 22 women, including four children below 10 years of age.
Bengaluru Urban has seen 10 deaths, followed by Kalaburagi (7), Dakshina Kannada (6), Vijayapura (5), and the remaining from other districts.
Of the 2,418 cases till Wednesday, 8 per cent were senior citizens, and 62 per cent men and 38 per cent women. The state’s patient discharge rate has declined to 32 per cent.
These people were tested (and incidentally identified as positive) only because they traveled. It is shocking that so many of those people are turning out to be positive. This means a lot of people who are not tested are already positive and we may never know which means we are actually in the advanced stage of community infection.
Majority of the population may have already had the virus come and go and nobody, including the host, would have noticed it. It’s no different than people getting a lurgy every winter. It comes, the body immune system fights it off and it goes. You don’t create quarantine, test etc. How long is it going to take for the country to realise this is all a farce? Are they going to continue to lockdown as soon as they lift it and more arrive from the outside state and we go into a never ending loop? If this continues we will… Read more »