Apr 18: Karnataka posts 19,067 COVID-19 cases and 81 deaths
Bengaluru, April 18: Karnataka saw 19,067 new coronavirus cases and 81 related deaths on Sunday, taking the gross to 11.61 lakh and toll to 13,351, the health department said.
Bengaluru alone contributed 12,793 fresh infections and 60 deaths in the last 24 hours, the biggest ever on a single day.
Due to the spiralling infections for the past one month, the state has now 1,33,543 active cases including 620 in the ICU.
According to the health bulletin, so far 10,14,152 patients have been discharged including 4,603 on Sunday.
Mysuru emerged as another major hotspot after Bengaluru with 777 cases and three deaths.
The bulletin said 671 infections were reported in Kalaburagi, 494 in Tumakuru, 469 in Bidar, 348 in Hassan, 338 in Mandya, 272 in Dakshina Kannada, 265 in Dharwad, 245 in Bengaluru Rural, 238 in Ballari and 200 in Vijayapura.
Cases were also reported in Bagalkote, Belagavi, Chamarajanagar, Chikkaballapura, Chitradurga, Davangere, Kolar, Raichur,and Yadgir.
Besides Bengaluru and Mysuru, deaths have been reported in other districts as well -- three in Dharwad, two each in Ballari, Koppal, Uttara Kannada, Vijayapura and Yadgir and one each in Tumakuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Bidar and Belagavi.
A majority of the people who lost their lives were above 50 years of age. A 22-year-old and four people in their thirties were also among the dead.
Ever since the outbreak of the second wave of coronavirus, the state has increased the tests as well.
There were 1,45,645 tests carried out on Sunday including 1,32,056 using the RT PCR and other methods taking the total tests done so far to 2.36 crore, the department added.
Cumulatively 68 lakh people have been vaccinated so far, including 22,065 on Sunday, since the inoculation drive began in the state on January 16.
Meanwhile, Health Minister K Sudhakar stated that Karnataka has topped all the states in the country with maximum inoculations.
"With 2,59,439 inoculations till 11 PM, Karnataka administered the highest number of Covid-19 vaccine doses in the entire country on Saturday," he said in a tweet.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
