With 388 new Covid-19 positive cases, Karnataka sees biggest single-day spike
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Maharashtra today recorded 2,287 new coronavirus cases, taking its total to 72,300. It also saw 103 deaths in the state, taking its death toll to 2,465. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu today reported 1,091 new cases of coronavirus, taking the total number in the state to 24,586. The state also reported 13 deaths, taking its total to 197.
The Tirupati temple in Tirumala is likely to open to devotees from June 8 after the government today issued orders saying the temple can open on a trial-run basis with limited employees and local public. This comes after the TTD board wrote a letter to the government seeking permission to resume operation. Discussions at the TTD board level are ongoing.
Karnataka recorded its biggest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Tuesday with 388 new cases being reported across the state, taking the cumulative total to 3,796 positive cases. This includes 52 deaths, 2,339 active cases and 1,403 patients who have been discharged after being cured.
Of the new cases on Tuesday, all but 20 patients were people who had returned to Karnataka from Maharashtra, the worst-affected state in the country.
The maximum -150 cases – were reported from Udupi district where a large number of people, working in the hotel industry in Mumbai, have come back in the last few weeks.
Kalburgi, Yadigiri, Mandya, Hassan and Bangalore are the other districts that account for the bulk of the active cases in Karnataka.
COVID-19 recovery rate improves to over 48%
Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that recovery rate reached 48.07 per cent in the country and a total 95 thousand 527 people affected with corona virus have cured so far. It said, recovery rate has improved continuously and in the first phase of lockdown, the recovery rate reached to 11.42 percent and in second phase it reached around 27 per cent. During the third phase of lockdown which ended on 18th May, the figure of recovery rate reached to 38.29 per cent.
In a media briefing in New Delhi today, Health Ministry said, however, number of corona cases are increasing in India, but in comparison to the other countries in the world, less cases and deaths have been reported. It said, 14 countries with popular numbers similar to India have reported 22.5 times more cases and 55.2 times more deaths in comparison. It said, surveillance, contact tracing, isolation and timely clinical management have reduced the fatality rate in the country. Ministry said, case fatality was 3.30 per cent on 15th April and now it is at 2.82 per cent which is lowest among the other countries of the world. The worldwide fatality rate is 6.13 percent.
Ministry said, case fatalities per lakh population in India is 0.41 per cent which is low in comparison to world which stands at 4.9 per cent. Health Ministry also refuted claims of under reporting of Covid-19 cases saying that states are doing causality assessment and attributing cause of death accordingly.
Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR has said that testing capacities are scaled up during the last two months and now 1 lakh tests are being done everyday. It said, total 681 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 476 government laboratories and 205 private laboratories’ chains.
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