Dec 11: 320 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Dec 11: Karnataka's COVID tally crossed the 30 lakh mark with 320 fresh COVID-19 cases whereas two deaths took the cumulative fatalities to 38,257, the health department said on Saturday.
The state also achieved another feat of over eight crore vaccinations including first and second dose with 2,80,534 vaccinations today.
In its COVID bulletin, the department said the state has reported 30,00,105 infections since the outbreak of COVID last year.
The department added that 317 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 29,54,513. Active cases stood at 7,306.
Bengaluru Urban remained the major contributor of COVID cases as both the deaths took place in the city and 190 fresh infections were reported.
Other districts too had fresh cases including 21 in Kodagu, 20 Dakshina Kannada, 17 in Hassan, 14 in Mysuru and 10 in Chikkamagaluru.
There were zero fatalities in 30 districts.
While 10 districts reported zero infections and zero fatalities, 15 districts had cases in single digits.
The positivity rate for the day was 0.30 per cent and the case fatality rate was 0.62 per cent.
A total of 1,05,978 samples were tested including 89,718 RT-PCR tests on Saturday, taking the cumulative number of specimens examined to 5.44 crore.
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Fake notes with 'movie shooting purpose only' written on them send police into tizzy in Sirsi
Sirsi (Karnataka), Apr 8 (PTI): The police in Uttar Kannada went into a tizzy on Tuesday after they found fake currency notes of Rs 500 denomination from a house in Dandeli with 'movie shooting purpose only' written on them.
Based on a tip-off, police searched a rented house at Gandhinagar in Dandeli and confiscated the fake currency notes along with a money counting machine.
Arshad Khan, who is said to be from Goa, was staying as a tenant in the house belonging to Noorjan Jhunjuwadkar, police said.
Police were informed after Jhunjuwadkar noticed that Khan was absent from the house for the past one month.
The fake currency notes had the inscription 'Reverse Bank of India' on them, but did not have the signature of the RBI governor, police said.
The notes were printed on a shining paper with only zeros written in the place of the number, and 'movie shooting purpose only' inscribed on them, police said.
A hunt is on to trace Khan to question him about the seizure, they added.
