522 fresh COVID-19 cases, four deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Jan 31: Karnataka reported 522 fresh COVID-19 cases and four related deaths, taking the infection count and toll to 9,39,387 and 12,217 respectively on Sunday, the Health department said.
The day also saw 465 patients being discharged after recovery, leaving 6,029 active cases.
Cumulatively 9,39,387 positive cases have been confirmed in the state and this includes 12,217 deaths and 9,21,122 discharges, the health department said in its bulletin.
Of the active cases, as many as 145 patients are in Intensive Care Units of various hospitals, it said
Of the four fresh deaths reported today, three were from Bengaluru Urban and one from Dharward.
Bengaluru Urban district accounted for 242 of the fresh cases reported on Tuesday
It was followed by Mysuru 53, Dakshina Kannada 33, Tumakuru 23, Kalaburagi 18, 17 each in Chikkaballapura and Uttara Kannada, 14 in Chitradurga and 13 in Hassan.
Twenty nine out of the 31 districts reported nil fatalities.
A total of over 1.70 crore samples have been tested so far, out of which 75,451 were done on Sunday.
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Kejriwal says he, AAP leaders will go to BJP office on Sunday; dares PM to get them arrested
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday that he and other AAP leaders would go to the BJP headquarters on March 19 "so that the prime minister can send anyone he wants to jail".
The BJP is saying they will send AAP MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to jail too, he claimed at a press briefing hours after his aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested in connection with the alleged assault on his party's parliamentarian Swati Maliwal.
Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convener, however, asserted that his party could not be crushed by sending its leaders to jail.
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "playing the game" of sending AAP leaders such as Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, and Sanjay Singh to jail, he said, "I along with my MLAs and MPs would go to the BJP office at noon tomorrow so that the prime minister can send anyone he wants to jail."
"The AAP is an idea. For as many AAP leaders you jail, the country would produce leaders a hundred times more," Kejriwal said.
He claimed that the AAP's "fault" was that its government in Delhi built good schools, set up Mohalla Clinics, provided free treatment and ensured free round-the-clock power supply in the city which the BJP could not do.
Kejriwal, who was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, has been granted interim bail till June 1 by the Supreme Court to campaign in the Lok Sabha polls. He will have to surrender and go back to jail on June 2, a day after the last phase of polling in the general elections.
