Bengaluru, April 25:Karnataka in the last 24-hours had reported another highest single-day spike
of 34,804 cases of COVID-19 today.
According to official sources, the state has witnessed a positivity rate for the day of the pandemic cases
to 19.70 per cent, which is highest count recorded so far against the total number of 1,76,614 COVID-19
tests done in the last 24-hours.
The sources said that in the last 24-hours as many as 143 people have succumbed to the virus including 77 in Bengaluru Urban district.
The total number of people who had succumbed to the disease so far in the state has surged to 14,426.
Karnataka, in its desperate attempt to contain the spread of the pandemic, has clamped night-curfew
from 2100 hours to 0600 hours in all the week days, besides a total lock-down from Friday night to
Monday morning.
The state Government is expected to take further hardening steps if the situation continues to go beyond
check, the sources said.
Meanwhile, Union minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Coal, Prahlad Joshi, speaking to newsmen in
Hubballi, had informed that Karnataka has received 800 metric tonnes of Medical Oxygen and
1.22 lakh of Remdesivir injection vials from the Center on Saturday to meet the demand in the state.
“The Center is also importing Oxygen units from Germany to meet the requirements” he said.(UNI)