Biggest single-day spike of 8,818 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka
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Out of 8,818 fresh cases, 3,495 of them were from Bengaluru urban alone.
Karnataka on Saturday reported the biggest single-day spike of over 8,800 new cases of COVID-19 and 114 related fatalities.
With this, the total number of infections rose to 2,19,926 and death toll to 3,831 in the state, the health department said.
The day also saw 6,629 patients getting discharged after recovery.
Out of 8,818 fresh cases, 3,495 of them were from Bengaluru urban alone.
The previous biggest single-day spike was recorded on Friday with 7,908 cases.
As of August 15 evening, 2,19,926 positive cases have been confirmed and they included 3,831 deaths and 1,34,811 discharges, the health department said.
Bengaluru urban district topped the list of positive cases with a total of 87,680 infections followed by Ballari 13,807 and Mysuru 9,915.
Among those discharged too, Bengaluru urban topped the list with a total of 51,426 followed by Ballari 7,504 and Kalaburagi 6,369.
A total of 19,93,760 samples were tested so far out of which 54,806 were tested on Saturday alone.
Among the samples during the day, 25,731 were rapid antigen tests.