Summary:
After the sudden surge in COVID cases across the city, the Bengaluru civic authorities have sounded a high alert after 10 cases of coronavirus were found at the SJR Watermark Apartments.
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After the sudden surge in COVID cases across the city, the Bengaluru civic authorities have sounded a high alert after 10 cases of coronavirus were found at the SJR Watermark Apartments.
Karnataka has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the next worst-hit state after Maharashtra and Kerala.
Karnataka recorded 383 new cases of COVID-19 and four related fatalities on Tuesday, 23 February - taking the total number of infections to 9,48,849 and the death toll to 12,303.
Four deaths reported on Tuesday were from Bengaluru Urban.
Fresh cases were reported from Bengaluru Urban (240), Mysuru 26), Shivamogga 18), Dakshina Kannada (17), Tumakuru, and Udupi (12 each), Belagavi (10), with fewer cases in other districts.
Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 4,04,183.
A COVID alert is now in place in Bengaluru after ten people were found Covid-19 positive at SJR Watermark Apartments comprising nine blocks housing 1,500 people in the last one week alone.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad has issued an official statement to the effect.
Six contagious blocks have been declared as containment zone by the BBMP and nine mobile teams were deployed.
The team took 500 RT-PCR samples and the result is awaited soon.
Calling it a COVID-19 War Room Bulletin, N Manjunatha Prasad tweeted details of statistics in Kannada and English:
BBMP
Covid 19 War Room Bulletin
23-02-2021
Total infected cases: 404183
Total Healed: 395344
Total death cases: 4459
The last 24 hours
Total infected cases: 240
Total Healed: 240
Total death cases: 04
This follows the earlier discovery of the biggest coronavirus hotspot in the Karnataka state capital in recent times - almost a year after the COVID-1 pandemic arrived here.