Bengaluru, May 26 (PTI): The active covid-19 cases in Karnataka rose to 80 on Monday, with the addition of 37 new patients, the health department said.
Of these 80 active cases, 73 were from Bengaluru, it said in a bulletin.
Bengaluru reported 35 of the 37 new cases on Monday.
The state's positivity rate in the last 24 hours stood at 19.37 per cent, the bulletin added.
Earlier in the day, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said there was no cause for concern, as most recent covid-19 cases in the state involved only mild infections. However, he stressed the need for continued precautions.
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Jaipur (PTI): A pickup van crashed into a parked truck in Rajasthan's Dausa district in the early hours of Wednesday, killing 11 people, including seven children, and injuring eight others, police said.
The passengers of the pickup vehicle were returning to their village in Uttar Pradesh's Etah after visiting Khatu Shyam and Salasar Balaji temple when the accident occurred on Manoharpur highway around 4-5 am, Dausa Superintendent of Police Sagar told PTI.
Those killed include seven children and four women, he said.
Twenty people were on board the pickup vehicle when it rammed into a stationary truck in the service lane of the highway, the SP said, adding that one of the eight injured is in critical condition.