The virulent surge of COVID-19 in Karnataka showed no signs of abating during the lockdown, with the State showing a sharp 31% rise in number of positive cases reported between April 27 and May 7.Whil
Recovery rate plummets to 70% in Karnataka
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Gadag and Chitradurga districts have the highest rate and Kodagu, Bengaluru Urban lowest
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Gadag and Chitradurga districts have the highest rate and Kodagu, Bengaluru Urban lowest
Although COVID-19 patients are discharged from hospitals on the fourth or fifth day if they develop clinical stability, the State’s recovery rate has reduced considerably in the last one month.
From 98.1% on February 28, recovery rate reduced by over 1 per cent to touch 97.8% on March 15. Subsequently, it further dipped to 96.3% by March 30 and 90.1% in mid-April. In the next 15 days, the recovery rate saw a drastic reduction to touch 73.9% on April 30. As of Saturday (May 8), the recovery rate has touched 69.9%.
This is not something
Bengaluru will be proud of but numbers don’t lie. On Tuesday, Bengaluru logged 20,870 cases, the highest number of covid cases in a day, in the country, overtaking other cities. Experts say that Bengaluru’s daily covid caseload may also be one of the highest in the world.
Delhi, which used to be the worst affected city in terms of daily caseload, reported 19,953 cases on Tuesday while
Pune’s tally stood at 3,189 and Mumbai’s at 2,554 cases. Bengaluru’s daily caseload is also higher than that of the combined Mumbai circle (7,436) including
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi, Mira-Bhayandar, Kalyan-Dombivli, Palghar, Vasai, Raigad and Panvel corporations. So far, the fatalities in Bengaluru (132 as per Tuesday’s bulletin) are still lower than in Delhi which had reported 338 deaths.
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BENGALURU: Data shows that Bengaluru’s positivity moving growth rate has touched 63 per cent in 28 days from March 31 till April 28, which is alarming.The moving growth rate (MGR) indicates the doubling rate of Covid. Among the megacities, Ahmedabad has 114 per cent MGR which is the highest, followed by Delhi at 66 per cent and Bengaluru. Experts suggested that Bengaluru needs to change its containment strategy to bring cases under control as the plan adopted in the first wave is not proving effective in the second wave.
Jeevan Raksha, an initiative of Proxima, that analysed the data stated that Bengaluru’s MGR in 28 days should ideally be less than 10 per cent. Bengaluru’s active cases MGR too is high at 1043 per cent, which is second only to Ahmedabad’s 2709 per cent. During April 21-28, Bengaluru added almost one lakh active cases and its active cases per million during the period was 1815, which was three times the average number of active cases in
‘Change the covid strategy’
With covid cases showing no signs of slowing down, experts say that it is time for the
State Government to revise the covid management strategy for
Bengaluru.
Sanjeev Mysore, convenor of Jeevan Raksha, which analyses Covid trends across the country, said that there is a need to change its covid management strategy to deliver better results. He compared Bengaluru cases with Chennai. “On May 1, 2020, 16 people had succumbed to covid in Chennai, whereas five had died in Bengaluru.
A year later, covid deaths in Chennai was 4,741, whereas Bengaluru had 6,375 casualties.
Bengaluru Urban has a
population of 1.2 million and as on April 28, it has carried out 1.1 million covid tests. Out of the total tests conducted, around 20 per cent were repeat tests. Therefore, the effective number of tests conducted till date is 9 lakhs. This means that 72 per cent of the total population has been tested.”