Karnataka: Bengaluru continues to be Covid hotspot with 11,404 cases
April 17, 2021
A view of swab test being taken at Bengaluru. - Somashekar GRN×
Karnataka sees a single day high of 17,489 Covid-19 cases
Karnataka’s daily Covid-19 positivity rate on Saturday has risen sharply to 12.20 percent. On Friday it stood at 11.11 percent and on Thursday it was 11.38 percent.
The state’s case fatality rate (CFR) too is on the rise, today CFR is 0.45 percent. It stood at 0.52 percent on Friday.
The state has reported a single day highest new Covid-19 cases in a week at 17,489 cases, of these 11,404 new cases were reported from Bengaluru Urban district alone.