June 27: Karnataka logs 3,604 new COVID-19 cases, 89 deaths push toll to 34,743
Dakshina Kannada records 454 positive Covid-19 cases, 15 deaths
Bengaluru, Jun 27: After over four months, COVID-19 related fatalities in Karnataka dipped below the hundred mark with 89 being reported on Sunday while 3,604 fresh cases took the overall tally to 28,34,630, the Health department said.
The death toll rose to 34,743 with 89 being reported on Sunday.
The number of active cases stood at 1,01,042 whie the total discharges went up to 26,98,822 with the recovery of 7,699 people.
Bengaluru Urban district logged the highest number of cases at 788 and 11 deaths.
The city has so far reported 12,11,430 infections and 15,581 deaths. There were 63,473 active cases.
Mysuru district remained the second major COVID hotspot with 478 new cases while it was on the top in terms of fatalities with 15 deaths.
Dakshina Kannada added 454 infections and 15 Covid related deaths.
According to the health bulletin, Hassan reported 322 infections, followed by Shivamogga (177), Belagavi (143), Chikkamagaluru (126), Davangere (118), Tumakuru (116), Kodagu (115), Mandya (109) and Kolar (101).
Infections were reported in other districts as well including Ballari, Bengaluru Rural, Chamarajanagar, Dharwad, Udupi and Uttara Kannada.
The department said there were eight deaths in Ballari, six each in Dharwad and Belagavi, five in Shivamogga, four each in Kolar and Hassan.
Fatalities were reported in 10 other districts as well.
There were zero fatalities in Bagalkote, Bidar, Chikkaballapura, Chikkamagaluru, Chitradurga, Kalaburagi, Ramanagara, Uttara Kannada, Vijayapura and Yadgir.
The state conducted 1,64,636 COVID tests including 1,25,566 RT-PCR tests and other methods.
So far 3.38 crore tests have been done cumulatively, the department added.
As many as 2.17 crore inoculations have been achieved in the state comprising first and second dose of vaccine including 1,00,036 on Sunday.
The positivity rate for the day was 2.18 per cent and Case Fatality Rate was 2.46 per cent, the department said.
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Video Does Not Show S Jaishankar Being Asked To Leave Trump’s Inauguration
CLAIM: Video shows External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar being asked to leave Trump's inauguration ceremony.
FACT CHECK: The live streaming of the event shows a staffer requesting a photographer, who was taking pictures, to move back from the front row, and not S Jaishankar.
A video from Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony as the 47th president of the United States has surfaced with false claims that it shows External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar being asked to leave the ceremony midway.
BOOM went through the live streaming of the event and found that a staffer was requesting a photographer who was taking pictures, to move back from the front row, and not Jaishankar. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met foreign ministers from Japan and Australia at the ceremony. In the photographs shared from his X handle, Jaishankar can be seen seated in the front row.
A user on X posted the video with the below caption.
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Fact Check
The video was streamed live on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies' official YouTube channel on January 20, 2025.
From the 3:08:30 timestamp of the video, we found that a photographer was capturing moments from Trump's inaugural ceremony from various angles. At one point, she is seen stepping in front of External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, seated in the front row, to take photographs of the event.
After noticing the woman photographer taking pictures from the front row, a staffer came towards her, called the photographer, and requested her to move back. This can be seen from timestamp 3:08:50.
The staffer was then seen leaving the front row shortly after making the request. At the timestamp 3:09:18, the photographer can be seen moving back. Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar can be seen remaining seated in his position.
We then zoomed in on the video and was able to establish that it was the woman photographer and not Jaishankar, who was asked to move back. It can also be noticed that the staffer was not looking at Jaishankar, but instead looking at the photographer, as she was taking pictures from a lower angle.
That specific part of the live stream is shown below.
Propagandist spreading disinfo with a clip from #TrumpInauguration where EAM @DrSJaishankar sat in first row superseding many dignitaries showing US-India ties
— Harry Minati (@harryminat1) January 21, 2025
Claims were made that @DrSJaishankar was asked by a lady to go back, it was actually the cameraman not @DrSJaishankar pic.twitter.com/3Qsp8z3xJ8
(This story was originally published by boomlive.in, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
