Nov 6: 224 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Nov 6: Karnataka on Saturday reported 224 fresh COVID-19 cases and five deaths, taking the caseload and death toll to 29,89,713 and 38,107, the health department said.
It said that 317 people were discharged, pushing the total number of recoveries to 29,43,487, leaving 8,090 active cases, a department bulletin said.
Though Bengaluru Urban remained the major contributor of COVID cases with 148 fresh infections, there were zero deaths.
Other districts too reported fresh cases including 15 in Dakshina Kannada, 10 in Udupi and nine in Mysuru.
While 13 districts reported zero infections, 15 districts had cases in single digits.
One death each occurred in Belagavi, Bidar, Kolar, Koppal and Mandya.
The bulletin said that 12 districts reported zero infections and zero fatalities.
The positivity rate for the day was 0.37 per cent and the case fatality rate was 2.23 per cent.
A total of 59,144 samples were tested, including 50,466 RT-PCR tests, taking the cumulative number of specimens examined to 5.13 crore.
The number of vaccinations done so far in the state rose to 6.63 crore, with 4,14,323 people being inoculated on Saturday, it said.
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6 held for murder of Congress leader in Ludhiana
Ludhiana (PTI): Six persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Congress leader Parminder Tiwari, who was hacked to death with an axe on Sunday in Machhiwara here.
Tiwari, the block president of the Congress party from Machhiwara in Ludhiana, was murdered on March 29 while sitting outside his rented quarters near Takhran village
Deputy Commissioner of Police Jaskaranjit Singh Teja stated the case is neither linked to politics nor gang rivalry.
The main accused, Vijay Kumar and Lucky, were apprehended in Jamalpura village in Munger district, Bihar, by a special team dispatched there, police said.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspects aimed to illegally occupy a piece of panchayat land in the Machiwara area, but Tiwari opposed their plans. The accused allegedly visited Tiwari at his rented quarters on March 29 and attacked him with an axe, resulting in his immediate death, officials said.
The other four individuals arrested are relatives of the main accused and were aware of the murder plot, the DCP added.
Police have recovered the axe used in the crime, as well as the motorcycle the accused used to flee the scene.
