Dec 15: 317 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Dec 15: Karnataka has reported 317 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths, taking the total number of infections to 30,01,251 and the death toll to 38,277, the Health Department said on Wednesday.
Also, the day saw 301 people getting discharged, taking the total number of recoveries in the State so far to 29,55,766.
Out of 317 new cases, 205 were from Bengaluru Urban which saw 139 getting discharged and the two deaths.
The total number of active cases in the State is 7,179.
While the test positivity rate for the day stood at 0.26 per cent, the case fatality rate (CFR) was at 0.63 per cent.
Both deaths reported on Wednesday were from Bengaluru Urban.
Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru Urban accounted for 205, Hassan 21, Kodagu 20 and Dakshina Kannada 16 followed by others.
Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 12,59,388, followed by Mysuru 1,80,083 and Tumakuru 1,21,222.
Among the number of people discharged, Bengaluru Urban again topped the list with 12,37,445 followed by Mysuru 1,77,458 and Tumakuru 1,19,956.
Cumulatively, 5,48,47,017 samples have been tested in the State so far, out of which 1,19,845 were tested today.
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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.
