A viral post on Twitter had been circulating with a claim that an 18-year-old Amanullah Irfan was killed by a "Hindutva terrorist" with a sword while he was returning after watching The Kashmir Files. The Karnataka State Police Factcheck team dismissed the connection and found the claim misleading.
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The Health Department on Sunday said, Karnataka has recorded 31,531 new cases of COVID-19 and 403 fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 22,03,462 and deaths to 21,837 so far.
Karnataka districts of which five recorded more than 40% positivity whereas 13 took a record of positivity between 30-39% according to the Union Health ministry of the state.
It has been observed that COVID-19 is moving at very high speed from large urban centres to the districts. As of now two Karnataka districts, Ballari and Uttara Kannada, are among India’s top five districts reporting the highest Covid-19 test positivity rate.
From the total of 403 deaths, 143 were from Bengaluru Urban, Ballari saw 26, Uttara Kannada 24, Hassan 18, Mandya 15, Shivamogga 14, followed by others.