Coronavirus | Karnataka’s toll up by 217, new cases cross 48,000

Karnataka on Friday reported 48,296 new cases of COVID-19 and recorded 217 deaths. A 30-year outdated COVID-19 affected person within the ICU of a authorities hospital at Mudnal close to Yadgir died throughout an influence outage on Friday. The affected person’s kin mentioned disruption in oxygen because of the energy outage triggered his dying.

District Surgeon S.B. Hiremath dismissed the cost, claiming that the dying was not triggered by energy outage, and oxygen provide was not disrupted. Health Department officers and engineers at Gulbarga Electricity Company Limited (GESCOM), mentioned the ability outage lasted one-and-a-half hours and the generator had no gas.

Speaking to The Puucho, Executive Engineer of GESCOM Raghavendra D. mentioned that there was a technical downside on the hospital that led to the ability outage. The oxygen system operated impartial of energy.

Karnataka’s take a look at positivity fee (TPR) for the day stood at 25.44%. Testing was carried out for 1,89,793 samples, together with 1,75,513 RT-PCR checks.

Kerala added 37,199 new cases on Friday, testing 1,49,487 samples. The common TPR was 24.88% on Friday.

The State added 49 new deaths, 18 from Thiruvananthapuram, whereas Ernakulam and Kozhikode added seven every, Kannur six, Thrissur 4, Kottayam three, Kollam two and one dying every was reported from Pathanamthitta and Wayanad.

Night curfew was prolonged until May 8 in Telangana. The State’s TPR on Thursday was 9.92% with 7,646 optimistic cases. A complete of 77,091 samples had been examined, and 53 deaths had been reported.

Andhra Pradesh added 17,354 infections on Friday and 64 sufferers died. On Friday, 86,494 samples registered a TPR of 20.06%.

(With inputs from Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Vijayawada bureaus)