COVID-19: Karnataka breaches 6000-mark; records 120 new cases 257 recoveries on Wednesday
Bengaluru: With 120 fresh COVID-19 cases reported in the state in the last 24-hours, Karnataka has crossed the 6000-mark. The total toll of positive cases in the state so far now stands at 6041. The state also has reported three deaths due to the virus on Wednesday.
According to the latest health bulletin issued by the Health and Family Welfare Department on Wednesday evening, Bengaluru Urban recorded two deaths in the last 24 hours while Dharwad recorded another death due to the virus. With this, the total number of deaths in the state due to the deadly virus has climbed up to 69.
A 57-year old man who was admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru Urban District, due to cough and fever on June 8 has passed away and has tested positive for the virus. Another 32-year-old man in Bengaluru Urban had passed away on June 10 and has tested positive. In Dharwad, a 58-year-old man was admitted to hospital on May 23 and passed away on Wednesday.
Bengaluru Urban reported 42 fresh cases of the virus between Tuesday 5 pm and Wednesday at 5 pm, the bulletin added. Among other districts, Yadgiri reported 27, Vijayapura 13, Kalaburagi 11, Bidar 5, Dakshina Kannada, Dharwad four new cases each. Davangere, Hassan, and Bellary reported three cases each while Bagalkote and Ramanagar registered two fresh cases each. Belagavi also reported one new case on Wednesday.
Of 6041 cases reported in the state so far, 2862 patients have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals. On Wednesday, 257 people recovered and were discharged across the state. The state currently has 3108 active cases with 69 reported deaths so far.
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Confident we are going to win Kerala: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed confidence in the victory of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, saying the Congress-led alliance will win more than 75 seats out of the total 140 in the state.
Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls, most of which predicted a victory for the UDF that has been out of power for 10 years in the state.
"We have been on the ground. I have campaigned in 59 constituencies across 12 districts out of 14. I was very confident we are going to win.
"Everything that I have picked up from not just my party colleagues and workers but also from other observers, media and others have always convinced me that we were going to score a comfortable win of above 75 seats. And all the (exit) polls have confirmed the same thing," he told reporters here.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls but in general he was not a big fan of exit polls in India.
"Because ours is not purely a homogenous society. We have to take into account gender issue, caste issue, class issue, regional disparities. You never get a convincingly large enough sample to give an accurate poll and now there is the additional complication that we have heard about in West Bengal this year that many people are unwilling to answer the questions of the pollsters," he said.
The Congress leader said normally, it used to be below 10 per cent that people said that they would not answer.
"Even if you are a reputable exit pollster, in Bengal, one polling company has said 60 per cent of people refused to answer. So, what is the worth of a poll where 60 per cent of your respondents have not answered," he said.
Several exit polls on Wednesday predicted a comeback by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala after 10 years, dethroning the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Polling for the 140-member Kerala assembly was held on April 9. Results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, besides Kerala, will be announced on May 4.
