COVID-19 tally breaches 1 000 mark in Karnataka with 45 new cases

Bengaluru, May 15 (PTI) The total number of COVID-19
cases in Karnataka breached 1,000 mark, with 45 people testing
positive, the state health department said on Friday.
Total number of positive cases in the state stood at
1,032.
With 35 deaths and 476 discharges, there were 520 active
coronavirus cases, the department said in its mid-day
situation update.
The new cases include- 16 from Dakshina Kannada, 13 from
Bengaluru Urban, five from Udapi, three each from Bidar and
Hassan, two from Chitradurga, and one each from Kolar,
Shivamogga and Bagalkote districts.
Twenty of them are with travel history to Dubai, four to
Mumbai and three returned from Chennai. One patient has a
history of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and another
was from containment zone in Bidar.
Rest are all primary and secondary contacts of patients
already tested positive, the bulletin said. PTI KSU
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