Karnataka Covid lockdown news: State reports 11,958 fresh infections, 340 fatalities

Bengaluru city logged less than 2,000 fresh Covid-19 cases, as Karnataka on Monday reported 11,958 fresh infections and 340 fatalities, taking the total caseload to 27.07 lakh and the toll to 31,920.

Faced with a financial crunch due to dip in footfall owing to COVID-triggered lockdown, Bengaluru zoo is reaching out to people to adopt and name animals and offer donations to raise resources.

Police and revenue officials detained four newly-wed couples as they had allegedly violated Covid protocols in KR Pete taluk on Sunday.

Thippasandra resident Thirumala Sreenivasan, 70, turned Covid positive a month ago and found it difficult to manage his daily food requirements as he lives alone. A friend suggested that he should get in touch with Domlurbased NGO Sadhana.

A cafe halted its regular operations to distribute food to migrants and daily-wage workers in various parts of the city. Surendra Kedia, the owner of Cafe Reset in Koramangala, said after the lockdown was announced in May, he decided to help people struggling without work or an income.

Reeling under enormous losses owing to the lockdown imposed in the wake of Covid-19's second wave, owners of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in North Karnataka are struggling to pay instalments on their loans, and worse, unable to pay wages to their employees. Cumulatively, the losses incurred by MSMEs in the region is estimated to be around Rs 1,000 crore, and driven to despair, these entrepreneurs are pinning their hopes on a bailout package from the state and central governments.

Crematorium workers, who have seen their workload increase tremendously over the past month, on Saturday had a special guest who served them food. J Manjunath, Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner, served workers breakfast and partook in the meal, expressing gratitude for their work.

With the state government deciding to consider class 10 and I PU marks for calculating II PU score, many students who had completed their class 10 in other boards, especially CBSE and ICSE, before shifting to the state syllabus, are unhappy.

There are more than 1,700 people suffering mucormycosis in Karnataka, but despite fear of the fungal infection and despair over the lack of hospital beds and the drug to treat it, 62 patients have recovered.

The weekly Covid case fatality rate (CFR) in Bengaluru peaked during the May 29-June 4 week to touch 7%, the highest seen in 2021 so far. During this period, the city witnessed 25,699 fresh Covid-19 cases and 1,797 deaths.

They take lunch breaks only after 4pm and mostly depend on free food distributed on the streets. What they want most is a power bank for their mobile phones that keep running out of charge, what with the constant calls and toggling to maps.

Karnataka deputy chief minister C N Ashwath Narayan on Sunday visited Laggere Ward in Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency and distributed one lakh free ration kits.

There has been little letdown in vigilance among officials, elected representatives and residents of the villages in Hassan district, leading to a fourth of the 2,600 villages – 650, to be precise – now being rid of Covid-19. Officials and elected representatives in the gram panchayats (GPs) have left no stone unturned in their efforts to prevent the infection from spreading, from subjecting those who have travelled from other states and districts to a Covid-19 test and enforcing, without any lenience, all the safety measures. The villages in Alur and Sakleshpur taluks, however, have been less successful in the fight against the pandemic, largely owing to the insufficiently staffed health department, and inadequate number of ambulances.