Ambulances outside a crematorium in Bengaluru on Thursday.
BENGALURU: Karnataka and Bengaluru broke single-day cases record for the second consecutive day as the overall infections in the state breached the 11-lakh mark on Thursday, while the number of cases in April surpassed 1 lakh.
On Thursday, the state saw 14,738 cases, including 10,497 in Bengaluru - both records - while 66 new deaths took the total to 13,112. Bengaluru reported 30 of the 66 deaths and has 4,963 of the total deaths.
As many as 3,591 people were reported as recovered on Thursday across Karnataka pushing the total recoveries to 9.9 lakh. In Bengaluru, more than 4.3 lakh people have recovered so far and 1,807 on Thursday. The state has a total of 11,09,650 (5,12,521 in the capital) cases of which 96,561 are under treatment. Bengaluru accounts for 74% of the patients.