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Karnataka recorded its largest peak in the number of Covid-19 cases on Sunday with 54 more people testing positive to bring the cumulative count to 848, including 31 deaths and 422 discharges, the state health department said.
The Shivamogga district that was in the green zone reported eight new cases.
State health department officials said most: 31 of the 54 new cases had a history of travel to a dargah (shrine) in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Eight of the people who came from Gujarat and tested positive had also visited the Ajmer dargah.
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Meanwhile, the government has sealed two hospitals in Bangalore after its alleged negligence led to the death of a 56-year-old patient identified as P-846.
The patient must have been taken to a private hospital with respiratory difficulties on May 4, but despite ongoing government instructions that any case of SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) be tested for Covid-19, it was not performed. .
As the patient’s condition deteriorated, she was directed to another private hospital on May 6, and no swab for Covid-19 was taken there either, and she died on May 7. A swab sample taken after his death tested positive for Covid-19. Health officials said action would be taken against private hospitals for negligence.
Five special Shramik special trains left Bangalore on Sunday for West Bengal, UP, MP, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir carrying migrants stranded in Karnataka.
The state government has also prepared to receive its first group of 240 Kannadigas who are returning from London and whose flight is expected to land in the early hours of Monday.
Health department officials said all precautions were taken and preparations were made to quarantine incoming passengers for the next two weeks.
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