Karnataka sees 487 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths
Bengaluru, Feb 7: Karnataka reported 487 new cases of COVID-19 and three fatalities on Sunday, the Heath Department said.
With this, the total number of infections rose to 9,42,518and the death toll to 12,236 so far, the department said.
The day also saw 493 patients getting discharged after recovery.
Out of the 487 cases, 250 cases were from urban Bengaluru alone.
As of the evening of February 7, a total of 9,42,518 positive cases were confirmed and that included 12,236 deaths and 9,24,304 people getting discharged, the bulletin said.
Out of 5,959 active cases, 5,818 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable while 141 are in the ICU.
Of the three deaths today, two are from urban Bengaluru and one from Mysuru.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru accounted for250, Mysuru 38, Dakshina Kannada30, Kalaburagi20 followed by others.
Bengaluru urban district tops the list of positive cases with 4,00,565, Mysuru 53,576 and Ballari 39,175.
Among the discharged too, Bengaluru urban topped the list with 3,92,263 followed by Mysuru 52,355 and Ballari 38,537.
A total of 1,75,16,945 samples have been tested so far.
Out of this, 74,230 were tested today and 3,671 among them were rapid antigen tests.
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MP boat tragedy: Death toll climbs to 13; body of last missing person recovered
Jabalpur (PTI): The bodies of a five-year-old boy and his uncle were recovered from Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district on Sunday morning, raising the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy to 13, police said.
The boat, around 20 years old and operated by the state tourism department, capsized during a storm on Thursday evening.
"The bodies of Mayuram (5) and his uncle Kamraj (around 50), an employee of the Ordnance Factory in Khamaria, were found floating and were fished out of the dam," Bargi Sub Divisional Officer of Police Anjul Ayank Mishra told PTI over the phone.
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All 13 missing persons identified have now been accounted for, he said, adding the bodies were sent to a government hospital for postmortem.
Teams comprising around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, along with personnel from the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force and local divers, were involved in the search operation, the police said.
Of the 41 identified passengers on board the vessel, 28 were rescued after the incident, according to the police.
The CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the boat, though the identities of 41 passengers have been confirmed so far, they said.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the incident and dismissed three crew members. It also banned the operation of similar vessels in the state.
