Bengaluru, Nov 14 (IANS): With 3,443 discharges in a day, recoveries at 8,18,392 continued to outnumber 2,016 new cases, taking Karnataka's Covid tally to 8,57,928, including 28,026 active cases.

"With 3,443 discharged on Thursday, 8,18,392 recovered till date, while 17 succumbed to the infection, taking the state's death toll to 11,491 so far," said the state health bulletin on Friday.

In Bengaluru too, 1,200 discharged in a day, taking recoveries to 3,33,487, while 1,030 fresh cases in a day took its Covid tally to 3,55,245, including 17,769 active cases since the pandemic broke out in the state on March 8.

With only 3 fatalities on Thursday, the city's death toll due to the virus rose to 3,988.

Of the 781 patients in intensive care units (ICUs), 391 are in Bengaluru hospitals, 41 in Kalaburagi, 39 in Mysuru, 31 in Tumakuru and 24 in Hassan.

Out of 1,17,999 tests conducted in a day across the state, 26,760 were through rapid-antigen detection and 91,239 through the RT-PCR method.

"Positivity rate for the day was 1.71 per cent and case fatality rate 0.84 per cent," added the bulletin.