Mar 1: 202 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 1: Karnataka on Tuesday registered 202 fresh coronavirus cases and seven related fatalities taking the total to 39,41,265 and 39,957 respectively.
There were 971 people who were discharged. These pushed the total recoveries to 38,96,423 till date, a bulletin said.
Of the new cases, 150 were from Bengaluru Urban. People, numbering 393, got discharged and there were three deaths there.
The number of active cases in the State is now 4,847.
While the positivity rate for the day stood at 0.52 per cent, the case fatality rate was 3.47 per cent.
Of the seven deaths, there were one each from Ballari, Dakshina Kannada, Davangere and Mysuru apart from the three in Bengaluru Urban.
After Bengaluru Urban, Tumakuru recorded the second highest number of cases with 10, Mysuru six, four each from Belagavi, Davangere and Uttara Kannada, three each from Ballari, Chikkamagaluru, Gadag and Shivamogga.
Bengaluru Urban district now has a total of 17,78,672 cases while Mysuru has 2,29,286 and Tumakuru 1,59,745.
Cumulatively, 6,45,40,275 samples were tested of which 38,390 were on Tuesday.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
