School may close soon in Karnataka, reports 850 students tests positive in 24 hours

Corona cases blast in Karnataka, Schools are become corona hot spot in state. Reports 850 students positive for covid in 24 hours. Highest cases reported in Hasan and Udupi. Karnataka schools are in danger become corona hot spot, Karnataka schools may go to close if cases continue.

Hasan 198 and Udupi 139 cases reported in single day. Karnataka on Friday reported 28,723 new Covid-19 cases along with 14 deaths. Bengaluru accounted for 20,121 new infections and seven deaths. With today’s addition of fresh cases, the state positivity rate stood at 12.98 per cent. The total number of active cases in the state is currently at 1,41,337. Government announced school closed classes 1 to 9 till January 31 in state capital.

The Karnataka education department made an announcement to extend school closed in Bengaluru for students of Classes 1 to 9 till January 31 on Thursday. On the coronavirus front, Bengaluru reported 18,374 new cases in the last 24 hours, with the positivity rate reaching 20 per cent. Karnataka has been recording a sharp growth. The Covid-19 positive cases in Karnataka rose by 36.4 per cent, while in Bengaluru, it grew by 32.6 per cent.

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Karnataka’s health minister K Sudhakar said media. “Though Bengaluru is the epicentre of the third wave, infections are rising in the rest of the state too.” “Now, in the third wave, cases are doubling every two or 2. 5 days,” he said. “Between January 1 and 11, there were 62,641 active cases and about 6% of them were in the hospital, 1% in Covid-19 Care Centres and the rest 93% were in home isolation,” he added.