COVID-19 cases cross 40,000 mark in Karnataka, 73 deaths reported

COVID-19 infections in Karnataka breached 40,000 mark on Monday as state reported 2,738 fresh cases and 73 related fatalities, taking death toll to 757, health department said.

day also saw a record 839 patients getting discharged after recovery. Out of 2,738 fresh infections reported on Monday, a whopping 1,315 cases were from Bengaluru urban alone.

As of July 13 evening, cumulatively 41,581 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in state,which includes 757 deaths and 16,248 discharges, health department said in its bulletin.

It said that out of 24,572 active cases, 24,027 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 545 are in Intensive Care Units.

Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said about 75 per of 757 deaths were due to n-COVID-19 reasons and remaining due to coronavirus and ded that government would come out with a public document on each death.

"Many have fear about death due to COVID. mortality rate in state is 1.82 per cent and 1.63 per cent in Bengaluru. I re media reports about increasing deaths due to COVID, but all are t. We are getting death audit done," he told reporters here.

Minister said information received from an expert committee revealed that about 60 to 75 per cent of deaths were due to n COVID reasons.

"If a terminally ill cancer patient tests COVID positive, his or her death is occurring a few months earlier than expected. Similarly, re are death cases who h kidney failure, liver failure and heart related ailments, among ors," he said.

Forty three of 73 deaths reported on Monday were from Bengaluru, six from Mysuru, also those from Shivamogga, Kodagu, Uttara Kanna, Dharw, Hassan, Haveri, Bagalkote, Belagavi, Hassan and Gag.

Of deceased, 48 were men and 24, women.

Most of de eir h a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) or Influenza-like illness (ILI).

Among districts where new cases were reported, Bengaluru urban accounted for 1,315 cases, followed by Ygir 162, Mysuru 151, Dakshina Kanna 131, Ballari 106, Kalaburagi 89, Vijayapura 86, Shivamogga 74, Dharw 71, and rest, among ors.

Bengaluru urban district topped list of cases, with 19,702 infections, followed by Dakshina Kanna 2,353 and Kalaburagi 2,192.

Among discharges Bengaluru urban topped with 4,328 discharges, followed by Kalabuagi 1,506 and Udupi 1,269. A total of 8,56,148 samples have been tested so far, of which 17,074 were tested on Monday alone, bulletin said. So far 7,93,561 samples have reported negative, out of which 13,952 tested negative today.