Bengaluru, May 5 (IANS): Repeating Monday's trend, two more patients succumbed to coronavirus even as 22 new positive cases, including 12 from Davangere alone, took Karnataka's tally to 673, an official said on Tuesday.

Two women, a 62-year-old woman from Vijayapura and a 50-year-old Davangere woman, died of Covid-19.

"Positive cases 640; 62-year-old female resident of Vijayapuraadied on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest," said a health official.

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Admitted in a designated hospital's ICU on Sunday, the deceased woman was also suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and complained of breathlessness.

This is Karnataka's 28th Covid death and Vijayapura's third.

Vijayapura is battling 47 cases, out of which 22 are active, 22 discharged with three deaths.

Vijayapura is 526 km northwest of Bengaluru.

Similarly, a 50-year-old woman from Davangere diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) has also passed away.

"Positive case 662, 50 years female resident of Davangere with complaint of breathlessness died on Tuesday," said the official.

This is Davangere's third death and Karnataka's 29th.

Davangere has 44 cases, out of which 39 are active and two discharged while three died.

Davangere is 266 km northwest of the city.

A good number of Covid deaths also have pre-existing co-morbidities.

Across the state, out of 312 active cases, 306 are isolated at designated hospitals and stable while six are in the ICU.

Meanwhile, 22 new cases emerged in the state, 12 from Davangere alone, continuing the spike, with all of them being contacts of earlier cases.

Incidentally, though no new cases emerged from Davangere in the first 19 hours, 12 surfaced in the next five hours on Tuesday.

Four more cases were also contacts of earlier cases, two more are suffering from Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and one with travel history to Uttarakhand and another to Mumbai.

The health department is also finding out the contact history of a 30-year-old woman from Bengaluru Urban.

Among the new cases, Davangere contributed 12 cases, Bengaluru Urban 3, followed by Bagalkote, 2, Ballari, Dakshina Kannada, Savanur in Haveri, Dharwad, and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, 1 each.

Of the 22 new cases, 13 are men and nine women.

On Tuesday, 10 patients got discharged -- Bagalkote, 3, Kalaburagi, 1, Vijayapura and Mysuru, 3 each.