Mar 16: 145 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 16: Karnataka on Wednesday registered 145 fresh COVID-19 cases and two virus-related deaths taking the fresh infections and fatalities to 39,44,186 and 40,026 respectively, the state health department said.
In its daily COVID-19 bulletin, the department said 392 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 39,02,028 while the state's active cases tally stood at 2,092.
Bengaluru Urban district reported 97 viral infections and two COVID deaths. Other districts too had fresh cases, including 17 in Mysuru, eight in Chitradurga and four each in Dharwad and Kalaburagi.
There were zero deaths in 30 districts, including zero infections and zero fatalities in 15 districts.
The test positivity rate (TPR) for the day was 0.35 per cent and the case fatality rate was 1.38 per cent.
As many as 41,097 tests were conducted, including 26,882 RT-PCR tests, taking the total tests so far to 6.51 crore.
There were 70,321 inoculations done taking the total vaccinations so far to 10.22 crore, the department said.
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Sindhu out of Thailand Open, loses to Yamaguchi in quarterfinals
Bangkok (PTI): Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu squandered a one-game advantage to go down fighting to top seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open tournament here on Friday.
Sindhu lost 21-19, 18-21, 15-21 to world number three Yamaguchi in the women's singles quarterfinal match that lasted just over one hour in the USD 500,000 Super 500 tournament.
The two-time Olympic medallist and sixth seed Sindhu had reached the quarterfinals after beating Denmark's Amalie Schulz 21-13, 21-15 on Thursday.
Lakshya Sen, the 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, and the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will feature in the men's singles and men's doubles quarterfinals respectively later in the day.
