Karnataka spikes 196 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday reported a whopping 196 number of new cases of deadly coronavirus on Saturday, according to the latest health bulletin issued by Health and Family Welfare Department on Saturday afternoon.
With this the State has neared the 2000 mark for the total number of cases as it has so far reported 1939 cases.
196 cases that were reported in the state between Friday evening 5pm and Saturday 12pm has triggered panic among the residents of the state. The bulletin further informed that the new 196 cases include a four-month old baby along with 37 other children. 184 cases off the 196 reportedly were from travelers who had arrived from Mumbai.
Yadgiri District reported the highest, 72 cases in the bulletin while Raichur 39, Mandya 28 and Chikkaballapur 20 were the other Districts with remarkable numbers of new cases.
Gadag (15), Dakshina Kannada (2), Bengaluru (4), Uttara Kannada (2), Kalaburagi (1) also reported new cases.
598 people in the state have so far recovered from the virus and 42 in the state have succumbed to the deadly virus.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
