Karnataka Death rate jump to 40%, All school will reopen from tomorrow

Karnataka Covid-19 The number of COVD-19 death rate jumped by 40% in one day, with the State reporting 70 deaths on Saturday. This is the highest number of deaths since the start of the third wave. Karnataka Death rate jump to 40%, All school will reopen from tomorrow.

Barring four people, the rest succumbed in hospitals, with Bengaluru Urban reporting the maximum number of deaths at 13, followed by Mysuru (nine), and five each in Dakshina Kannada and Kalaburagi and Udupi. However, hospitalisations across the State remain low with around 5,477 people of the 2.88 lakh active cases in hospitals.

Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar, in a tweet, said that the overall hospitalisation rate as of January 28 was 1.90%. Of these, 0.42% were occupying oxygenated beds and 0.24% were on ICU/ventilator support. The percentage of patients in non-oxygenated beds was 1.24%. Cases continued to rise on Saturday, with the State reporting 33,337 new positives.

Bengaluru Urban district accounted for 16,586 cases, followed by Mysuru with 2,431 cases. Tumakuru, Dharwad and Haasan reported over a thousand cases each. The positivity rate for the day was 19.37% while the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) jumped to 0.20%. There are currently 2,52,132 active cases in the State, while the number of discharges is 69,902.

The total number of discharges to date is 34,65,995 in Karnataka. A total of 1,72,062 tests, including 1,29,779 RT-PCR tests were conducted, taking the total number of samples tested to 6.15 crore. Night curfew will be withdrawn in Karnataka from Monday and schools and colleges in Bengaluru will reopen as well, the state government said today.

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Karnataka government has announced to reopen schools for all classes and colleges in Bangalore from Monday, January 31. Karnataka education minister BC Nagesh on Saturday announced reopening of schools and colleges and emphasised on strict adherence of COVID-19 protocols during offline classes.

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The decision on reopening schools for Class 1 to 9 is taken after a meeting with the COVID 19 Technical Advisory Committee. Schools in Bangalore were closed due to a spike in COVID-19 cases but now as the cases are declining, schools can be reopened from Monday onwards. BC Nagesh said to media, “We’ve decided to open schools in Bengaluru from Monday. Night curfew to be lifted from Jan 31; have directed concerned depts to ensure that proper SOPs are followed.