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Bangalore: After two months of dodging the bullet, Karnataka was hit by Covid-19 on Friday, registering 45 new cases in one day. And that’s just the number for the afternoon. More cases are likely to be recorded in the afternoon bulletin.
For weeks, the state had been counting his blessings in the hope that the contagion had failed him. Friday’s streak of new cases shows that it was all a case of whistling beyond the cemetery. The ghost is still around.
Today’s 45 positives, including a five-month-old baby, bring the total number of infections in the state to 750, far less than the northern neighbor Maharashtra, which is the leader, or even the eastern neighbor, Telangana, which it has 1172.
Unlike those two states, it is not the state capital, Bengaluru, that is the epicenter; The increase spans multiple districts. According to the noon report from the health department, the new cases include 14 from Davangere, 12 from Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, 11 from Belagavi, 7 from Bengaluru Urban and 1 from Ballari.
Until today, the highest daily incidence had been 38, mainly due to two groups: the Jubilant Generics, one in Nanjanagud; and the Tablighi Jamaat extension. Both groups were contained.
A look at the sequential growth of the virus in Karnataka suggests that the contagion shifted gears on Friday.
* March 9 – first case
* March 24 – 41
* March 31 – 101
* April 10 – 207
* April 16 – 315
* April 20 – 408
* April 25 – 500
* May 2 – 601
* May 7 – 705
* May 8 – 750
The point of concern in new cases is that the virus has returned in places where it was thought to have been overcome.
The 14 new Davanagere cases underscore the fact that the district had been certified orange until a week ago, and had not seen a single positive for more than a month. Davanagere is now red hot.
Bhatkal is also giving officials a feeling of sinking. It was the scene of an early eruption of cases, but the situation was successfully controlled. However, a person who visited Mangaluru turned the almost green zone to the red zone.
In the capital Bengaluru, the setback is giving doubts to the BBMP, which had been wanting to request the central government to declare its neighborhoods crown-free as “green zones”. Now they are cautious about it. Of the 7 new crown positive cases found in Bangalore, they cannot determine the source of infection for three.
All seven cases are from Shivajinagar (which was sealed earlier this week after a housekeeper tested positive) and from the Padarayanapura containment area, which was one of the first to be declared a containment area and closed on 10 of April.
After Shivajinagar reported new cases, the shops on the shopping street that had opened their doors were asked to close immediately.
Among those infected is a 34-year-old pregnant woman from Padarayanapura who visited the BBMP Maternity Hospital near Sirsi Circle, Chamrajpet. After her diagnosis, other patients in the hospital have been transferred and the medical staff who treated her were told to be quarantined. The hospital has been sealed and is being disinfected.
The pregnant woman, who hopes to give birth soon, was transferred to the Covid 19 facilities at Victoria Hospital.
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