Bengaluru: Karnataka on Thursday recorded a biggest single-day spike of 1,502 new COVID-19 cases and 19 related fatalities, taking the infection count to 18,016 and the death toll to 272, the health department said.
The day also saw 271 patients getting discharged after recovery.
Out of 1,502 fresh cases reported today, a whopping 889 cases were from Bengaluru urban alone.
The previous biggest single-day spike was recorded on July 1 with 1,272 cases.
As of July 2 evening, cumulatively 18,016 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 272 deaths and 8,334 discharges, the health department said in its bulletin.
It said, out of 9,406 active cases, 9,245 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and stable, while 161 are in ICU.
The dead include- four from Ballari, three each from Bengaluru urban, Dakshina Kannada,and one each from Gadag, Udupi, Koppal, Mysuru, Hassan, Tumakuau, Kalaburagi, Belagavi, and Uttara Kannada.
Of the dead, 15 are men between the age of 36-79 and four women between 66-75.
The deceased include those with a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), Influenza-like illness (ILI), inter-state and inter-district travel, while the travel history of two districts is under investigation.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru urban accounted for 889 cases, followed by Dakshina Kannada 90, Mysuru 68, Ballari 65, Dharwad 47, 39 each from Vijayapura and Ramanagara, Kalaburagi 38, Bidar 32, Tumakuru 26, Shivamogga 23, Mandya 19, Uttara Kannada 17, Hassan 15, Udupi 14, Kolar 12, Raichur 11.
While 10 cases were reported in Bagalkote, it was eight in Davangere, seven each in Yadgir and Belagavi, Kodagu six, Bengaluru rural five, four each from Haveri and Koppal, Chitradurga three, Gadag two, and one each from Chikkaballapura and Chikkamagaluru.
Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with 6,179 infections, followed by Kalaburagi 1,488 and Udupi 1,242.
Among discharges Kalaburagi tops the list with 1,126 discharges, followed by Udupi 1,079 and Yadgir 838.
A total of 6,53,627 samples were tested so far, out of which 16,210 were tested on Thursday alone.
According to the bulletin, 6,19,292 samples have been reported as negative, and out of them 14,470 were reported negative today.
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Jaipur, Mar 28: Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a precocious talent as he struck a stunning 84 not out off 45 balls to set up a 12-run win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals in their IPL match here on Thursday.
Sent in to bat, RR were reduced to 36 for 3 in the eighth over but the 22-year-old Parag single-handedly took the home side to 185 for 5 with a magnificent unbeaten knock studded with seven fours and six sixes.
Parag, who was promoted to number 4 by the team management this season and made 43 in the previous match, took 25 runs off veteran South African pacer Anrich Nortje with scores of 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 1 in the final over to hit his highest T20 score.
Chasing 186 for a win, DC could only manage 173 for 5 in 20 overs though South African youngster Tristan Stubbs (44 not out off 23 balls) kept them in the hunt till the final over from which they needed 17 runs.
Avesh Khan conceded just four runs to help RR win their second consecutive match.
South African pacer Nandre Burger and Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets apiece to also contribute in the RR win.
"Definitely disappointed. The best thing to do from here is to learn from it. The bowlers did well through the 15-16 overs. But the batters did well at the death, hopefully we do better in the next game," DC skipper Rishabh Pant said.
DC were reduced to 34 for 2 in the fourth over with Burger taking two wickets in three balls in a fine display of fast bowling.
Burger, who was brought in as Impact Sub for Shimron Hetmyer, dismissed opener Mitchell Marsh (23 off 12 balls) and Ricky Bhui (0) in the fourth over.
DC captain Rishabh Pant came out to bat at the fall of Bhui's wicket and along with senior batter David Warner built the innings without taking too much risk. Delhi were 89 for 2 at the halfway stage.
Warner was the more aggressive one as he got the boundaries to keep DC in the hunt. The senior Australian batter fell one run short of his fifty courtesy a brilliant diving catch by Sandeep Sharma off the bowling of Avesh in the 12th over.
Warner and Pant were involved in a crucial 67-run partnership for the third wicket.
Playing in his 100th IPL match and 14 months after a horrible car crash, Pant tried to build the innings with occasional boundaries. But he got out for a 26-ball 28 as Chahal induced a faint lower edge for Sanju Samson to do the rest behind the stumps in the 14th over.
The asking rate shot up to more than 13 runs an over and DC needed 66 from the last five overs.
Stubbs kept DC in the game with two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the 17th over, but in the end the Delhi side were short by 12 runs.
They needed 34 runs from the final two overs which they could not get. It was DC's second consecutive loss.
Earlier, Parag shared 54 and 52 runs respectively with Ravichandran Ashwin (29) and Dhruv Jurel (20) after RR made a shaky start.
Royals captain Samson struck three consecutive boundaries in the fourth over bowled by pacer Mukesh Kumar before nicking a Khaleel Ahmed delivery two overs later to Pant to get out for 15.
RR were 30 for 2 by then as Mukesh had given DC their first breakthrough with the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal (5).
The Royals were in more trouble after wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav literally forced his captain Pant to take a review, which later proved to be successful, to dismiss Englishman Jos Buttler for an LBW decision.
Ashwin came out to bat at number five and he lofted a Kuldeep delivery for a six to help RR reach 58 for 3 at halfway stage. He gave Nortje even a harsher treatment with two sixes in the next over that yielded 15 runs.
Ashwin, however, holed out to Tristan Stubbs near the boundary ropes for a 19-ball 29.
Parag then made his presence felt, striking two boundaries and a six off Ahmed to take RR past 100 in the 15th over.