COVID-19: 416 new cases in Karnataka on Saturday; eight new deaths
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday recorded 416 fresh cases of Coronavirus taking the total number of cases in the state to 8,697. The state also reported eight death due to the virus between 5 pm on Friday and 5 pm on Saturday, a health bulletin by Health and Family Welfare Department informed on Saturday evening.
Bengaluru Urban District reported three deaths due to the virus while Bidar recorded two more deaths and Davangere, Chikkamagaluru and Udupi recorded one death each due to the deadly virus.
Among the Districts that reported new COVID-19 cases on Saturday were Bengaluru Urban 94, Bidar 73, Bellary 38, Ramanagar 38, Kalaburagi 34, Mysuru 22, Hassan 16, Raichur 15, Udupi 13, Haveri 12, Vijayapur 9, Chikkamagaluru 8, Chikkaballapura and Dharwad 5 each, Dakshina Kannada, Mandya, Uttara Kannada, Kolar, and Bengaluru Rural reported 4 cases each.
Apart from these Davangere reported 3 new cases, Bagalkote, Tumkuru, Gadag, and Shivmogga reported two cases each and Belagavi and Chamrajnagar reported one case each.
Of the 8,697 cases reported in the state so far, 5,391 patients have recovered and have been discharged from the hospitals including 181 on Saturday. 132 patients have succumbed to the virus while the state has 3,170 active cases, the bulletin informed.
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Delhi bomb scare : Senders' intention was to create mass panic, disturb public order, says FIR
New Delhi (PTI): The intention of the bomb hoax emails received by over 100 Delhi schools was to "create mass panic and disturb public order," the Delhi Police says in an FIR registered by its Special Cell.
According to an official source, who has access to the FIR, at least 125 bomb threat calls were received from different schools from 5.47 am to 2.13 pm on Wednesday.
The person said that after receiving the calls, PCR vehicles were rushed to schools, and district police, BDS, MAC, Special Cell and Crime Control Room, DDMA, NDRF, Fire CATS and several other agencies were alerted.
Movement of these units to the schools "resulted in massive inconvenience," read a part of the FIR, according to the source.
The officials evacuated the schools in an "elaborate exercise" and carried out anti-sabotage checks across the city, he said.
The emails were apparently sent with the "conspiratorial intention of creating mass panic and to disturb public," the source said.
The FIR has been registered at Special Cell Police Station under IPC sections 505 (2) (statements creating or promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication), and 120 (B) (punishment of criminal conspiracy).
Around 200 schools in Delhi-NCR received an identical threat email Wednesday claiming that explosives had been planted in their premises, triggering massive evacuations and searches as panic-stricken parents rushed to pick up their children.
Nothing was found during searches by authorities which later declared it a mass hoax.
