Karnataka, A.P. cross one lakh cases mark
Kerala prepares to raise capacity for longterm struggle; Telangana leans on Rapid Antigen Tests, cuts RTPCR numbers
Karnataka breached the one lakh mark on COVID19 cases on Monday, nearly five months after recording its first COVID19 case. The State had 1,01,465 cases, as 5,324 persons tested positive in a fresh singleday high. With 61,819 active cases, Karnataka was in second position after Maharashtra. Fuelled by a rise in cases in Bengaluru, the situation took a turn for the worse in July. After 2,000 cases per day initially, it began clocking over 5,000 cases, now for the fifth day. From July 1, the State added 86,223 cases while Bengaluru Urban accounted for 46,923. Active cases in Bengaluru Urban were put at 33,816. Apart from Bengaluru Urban that recorded 1,470 fresh cases, Ballari and Kalaburgi also saw a record jump: 840 and 631 cases respectively. . Andhra Pradesh also passed the onelakh cases mark on Monday, with 6,051 new cases. On the same day, 49 more deaths were recorded. The death toll rose to 1,090 and case tally to 1,02,349, the Health Department said. There were 51,701 active cases. So far 16.86 lakh samples were tested, 43,127 in the past day. The positivity rate rose to 6.07%. The cases confirmed per million ratio was at 1,918. Total cases in Telangana touched 55,532 as 1,473 more tested positive as of Sunday. Eight more patients died. The new cases included 506 from Greater Hyderabad, 168 from Rangareddy and 111 from Warangal Urban. Out of the total, 12,955
were active cases and 471 patients died. On Sunday, 9,817 [RTPCR] samples were tested, representing a sharp reduction after Rapid Antigen Tests were introduced on July 8. The
cumulative Test Positivity Rate was 15.28%. Kerala was preparing longterm plans for disease containment and capacity building, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The State
reported 702 fresh cases on Monday. Disease transmission within clusters seemed to go up and many clusters were expanding, he said. Two deaths were reported in Kozhikode and Kottayam,
taking the total toll to 63.
T.N. records 6,993 cases Tamil Nadu’s overall tally of COVID19 cases shot up to 2,20,716 with another 6,993 persons testing positive on Monday. Chennai accounted for less than 20% of the fresh coronavirus infections at 1,138 cases. The State’s daily count was more than 6,000 cases for the fifth consecutive day, with Monday marking the alltime high. A total of 54,896 persons were under treatment. A total of 5,723 persons were discharged, taking the total discharges till now to 1,62,249. Another 77 deaths (50 in government and 27 in private hospitals) were recorded by the Health department. The toll rose to 3,571. (With inputs from Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram
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