The Covid-19 situation in Bengaluru seems to have improved with the coronavirus positivity rate at 0.57 per cent. However, the case fatality rate of 1.37 per cent continues to worry health department officials. Here's what doctors have to say.
Garden city turns Covid hotbed as Bengaluru becomes country s district with highest active caseload
According to the latest statistics, there are nearly 1.5 lakh active coronavirus cases in Bengaluru
Bengaluru becoming hotbed of Covid
As the entire nation is battling the second wave of coronavirus, Bengaluru urban has become the district with the highest active case load in India. According to the latest updates, Bengaluru urban has nearly 1.5 lakh active cases, way ahead of Pune which has 1,16,000 active Covid cases. The alarming rise in coronavirus cases is apparently shattering the city s medical infrastructure, and authorities are planning to launch temporary care centers to treat Covid patients.
They will be announced if approved by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa
With COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru reaching almost 13,000 on Sunday, the State government is contemplating prescribing Bengaluru-specific guidelines to control the pandemic.
Revenue Minister R. Ashok told mediapersons on Sunday that specific guidelines for Bengaluru will be announced after seeking permission from Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa. “There will be no lockdown. The Chief Minister has also clarified on this. We will not allow the livelihood of the poor to be affected. We have to live with COVID-19,” Mr. Ashok said after meeting Home, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Sunday.
Updated Feb 16, 2021 · 01:58 pm A file photo of police officers wearing protective suits stop commuters for checking amid lockdown in Bengaluru. | Shailendra Bhojak/PTI
A total of 103 people have tested positive for Covid-19 from an apartment complex in Bommanahalli area of Bengaluru after a recent party, reported
The Indian Express on Tuesday. The civic body said a party was organised on February 4 in an apartment building in the neighbourhood.
“We have tested 1,052 residents of the apartment; one person is admitted in the hospital and others are in quarantine,” Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad told the newspaper. “The BBMP had put in place various measures, including isolating and quarantining those who had tested positive and we have intensified contact tracing.”