Five new cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus have been reported in Karnataka, taking the total to 43. In a tweet on Wednesday, Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said four have a history of international travel from the US, Dubai and Ghana. The fifth person travelled from Mumbai to Bengaluru by flight.
“All positive persons have been isolated and primary and secondary contacts have been identified and tested,” the Minister’s tweet said.
Among the five are: a 22-year-old female, resident of Davanagere (travelled from the U.S.), a 24-year-old male from Bengaluru (returned from the U.S. via Qatar), a 53-year-old male from Tamil Nadu (who arrived at KIA from Dubai) and a 61-year-old male from Bengaluru (travelled from Ghana via Doha), according to the tweet.
Meanwhile, the State on Wednesday saw an uptick in the daily fresh cases, with 566 new cases, taking the total to 30,05,798. The figure on Tuesday was 347. Bengaluru Urban reported 400 fresh cases and four deaths on Wednesday.
With six deaths, the State’s toll rose to 38,324. This is apart from 29 deaths of patients due to non-COVID-19 reasons.
As many as 245 persons were discharged on Wednesday, taking the total recoveries to 29,59,674. The State now has 7,771 active patients.
While the positivity rate for the day touched 0.52%, the Case Fatality Rate touched 1.06%.
As many as 1,08,726 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, including 86,794 RT-PCR tests. With this, the total number of tests rose to 5,62,35,594.
COVID-19 in Karnataka on December 29
Cases: 566
Deaths: 6
Discharges: 245
Tests: 1,08,726
Vaccinations: 5,05,368
Test Positivity Rate: 0.52%
Case Fatality Rate: 1.06%
Omicron cases (total so far): 43
