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The Karnataka Government may spare its employees from salary cuts this month despite severe resources crunch it faces following steep fall in revenue collection due to the ongoing lockdown to fight the coronavirus, official sources said on Tuesday.

An 80-year-old man became the 17th COVID-19 fatality in Karnataka, where seven new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, taking the total number of infected in the state to 415, the health department said on Tuesday.

An 80-year-old COVID-19 patient has died in Karnataka's Kalaburagi district, taking the death toll in the state to 17, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Tuesday.

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Sunday forced himself to delete one of his earlier tweets after it resurfaced and created waves of outrage on the micro-blogging site. However, the MP’s efforts of deleting the tweet did not do any good to the MP as the screenshots of the tweet are still being widely shared on twitter.

Five new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of infections in the state to 395, the Health department said on Monday.

As many as 59 people were arrested on Monday for attacking police and health officials at Padarayanapura in the city when they went to quarantine some people, police said.

Tension prevailed at Padarayanapura in the city late Sunday as some secondary contacts of COVID-19 patients along with a few locals tried to remove barricades and argued with officials who had come to shift them to a quarantine facility.