New Delhi: The covid-19 health crisis in India’s technology capital, Bengaluru, continues to spiral out of control as it surpassed the one lakh mark on Friday.
For the second day in a row, Bengaluru recorded nearly 3000 cases that indicated the severity of the crisis. Bengaluru continues to fuel the surge in numbers in Karnataka which is now one of the worst affected regions in the country.
The south Indian state confirmed 7571 positives in the 24 hours until 5 pm on Friday that takes its tally to 2,64,546 of which 83,066 are active. The situation in other parts continues to deteriorate as the remaining 29 districts recorded 4623 cases including 540 in Ballari, 384 in Belagavi, 278 in Udupi and 237 in Dharwad among others.
The death count went up to 4522 as 93 more lost their lives to COVID-19, according to the daily health bulletin of the state health bulletin. Though the fatalities have risen in recent days, the B.S.Yediyurappa-led state government maintains that it has the situation under control and is also planning to do a death audit to show further cement this claim. The government is attempting to put a distinction between those who died of covid-19 and those deceased, due to comorbidities but were positive.
The Karnataka government on Friday issued guidelines for usage of oxygen to treat covid- 19 patients after complaints of shortages began to pour in from various hospitals.
“There is an unprecedented surge in the demand for oxygen to treat covid- 19 patients. The clinical expert committee has conducted an analysis of the usage of oxygen which reveals that there is a non judicious and excessive use of oxygen therapy without proper monitoring,” Jawaid Akthar, additional chief secretary, department of health and family welfare of Karnataka said in a statement on Friday.
The guidelines comes after days after authorities at Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) shifted at least 20 patients due to an apparent shortage in oxygen.
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