Bengaluru logs 30,000 new Covid cases, highest ever single-day spike

BENGALURU: In a grim record, Bengaluru on Thursday registered 30,540 fresh Covid infections — its highest-ever single-day spike since the pandemic broke out nearly two years ago — taking its active cases past the 2-lakh mark. The city's highest until now was 26,756 daily cases on April 30, 2021.
Karnataka reported 47,754 cases on the day, a shade less than its highest ever of 47,930 recorded on May 9, 2021, during the peak of the second wave of the pandemic.The state logged 29 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Having conducted nearly 2.6 lakh tests in a day, the state's daily positivity rate was 18.5% on the day. With 1.2 lakh tests, Bengaluru recorded a positivity rate of 25.7%.
Apart from Bengaluru, four other districts reported more than 1,000 cases: Hassan logged in 1,840 cases, followed by Tumakuru 1,622, Mandya 1,512 and Mysuru 1,352. With that, the active caseload in the state is nearing the 3-lakh mark.
Health minister K Sudhakar said the state, as per estimates, would witness daily fresh cases between 70,000 and 1.2 lakh in the coming days.
Of the 29 deaths in the state, eight victims were from Bengaluru. The victims included a 40-year-old man from Mandya who died at his residence on January 17. The youngest victim was a 27-year-old woman from Mysuru suffering from breathlessness who died on January 17 after three days of hospitalisation. The woman had no comorbidities.
In Shivamogga, a Covid-positive person died by suicide and the case has been reported as non-Covid death as per the state's bulletin.