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New coronavirus cases remain higher than recoveries in Karnataka

  •   Fri, Feb 12 2021 08:22:05 AM

Bengaluru, Feb 12 (IANS): For the second consecutive day, new Covid cases at 430 remained higher than 340 recoveries in Karnataka, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.

"With 430 patients testing positive on Wednesday, the state's Covid tally rose to 9,44,057, including 5,958 active cases, while 9,25,829 recovered so far, with 340 discharged during the day," said the bulletin.

The virus, however, claimed 7 lives, including 6 in Bengaluru Urban district and 1 in Bengaluru Rural district, taking the state's death toll to 12,251.

In Bengaluru, 228 fresh cases were registered on Wednesday, taking the city's Covid tally to 4,01,323, including 3,920 active cases, while recoveries rose to 3,92,985 till date, with 128 discharged in the last 24 hours.

Of the 137 patients in the intensive care units (ICUs), 66 are in Bengaluru hospitals and 11 in Kalaburagi district, with the rest spread in 29 districts across the southern state.

Out of 68,194 tests conducted in the day across the state, 3,598 were through rapid antigen detection and 64,596 through RT-PCR method.

Positivity rate was 0.63 per cent and the case fatality rate 1.62 per cent across the state on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, 4,05,297 healthcare warriors were vaccinated across the state till Thursday, achieving 49 per cent of the 8,20,791 registered beneficiaries.

Similarly, 69,869 frontline warriors received the vaccine in the state till Thursday, accounting for 25 per cent of the 2,83,523 registered beneficiaries.

 

 

 
  

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Fri, Feb 12 2021

    Countries where the Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa is dominant are receiving conflicting advice about whether to roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in a sign of the complex challenge facing public health officials. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said preliminary evidence that the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab might not stop mild and moderate disease linked to the 501.V2 variant meant countries where it was circulating widely should seek alternatives. “If you have evidence that the 501.V2 variant is dominant . . . in your country, then we recommend that it should not be deployed for the obvious reason that it will have reduced activities in neutralising antibodies,” Nkengasong said at a briefing on Thursday.

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