Karnataka on Friday recorded 10 more COVID-19 deaths, taking the toll to 124, seven of them from Bengaluru.
Two of the four new deaths in Andhra Pradesh were reported from Krishna district, which has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the State.
In a massive rise, Telangana recorded 499 cases in 24 hours. For comparison, 352 cases were recorded on Thursday. The total number of cases till date stood at 6,526.
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Of the 499 cases, as many as 329 were from Greater Hyderabad, followed by 129 from Rangareddy district. Three more COVID – 19 patients died, raising fatalities to 198.
Kerala reported 118 new COVID-19 cases and 96 recoveries on Friday, taking the number of active cases in the State to 1,380. All except six were imported cases, with 67 cases detected in people who came from abroad and 45 in people from other States.
Six cases were acquired through local transmission. Three were reported in Thiruvananthapuram, while one case each was from Kannur, Kottayam and Wayanad.
The State’s cumulative number for COVID-19 positivity stood at 2,912, of whom 1,509 persons had recovered. Mortality from the virus stood at 21 in the State.
With a chunk of the cases currently testing positive being reported among expatriates, northern districts in the State which have significant numbers of people working in West Asia were bearing the brunt.
Malappuram had the maximum number of patients undergoing treatment at 226, Kannur had 123 and Kozhikode, 120 and Kasaragod, 93 cases.
As Andhra Pradesh entered the 100th day since the first COVID-19 case surfaced, it detected 465 new positive cases and four more deaths on Friday. It was the biggest single day spike so far.
The Health Department said the tally had inched close to 8,000-mark at 7,961 cases. Of them, 3,905 patients had recovered and 3,960 were being treated.
More than half of the cases were reported in the past 18 days and the other were reported in 82 days since March 12, the day the first case was reported.
Krishna district, the second most-affected after Kurnool, reported 82 fresh cases and Chittoor and Anantapur reported 58 and 50 cases respectively. West Godavari had 47 cases and Kurnool and Prakasam 31 cases each. They were followed by Kadapa (23), East Godavari (22), Guntur (17), Visakhapatnam (13), Nellore (2).
Besides two deaths in Krishna district, the other two were in Prakasam and Srikakulam districts. It was the first COVID-19 death in Srikakulam, a district with few cases. Of the 465 fresh cases, 376 were of locals while the rest were foreign returnees and people from other States.
Meanwhile, 131 more patients recovered.
Among the 10 deaths in Karnataka, two were reported from Bidar and one from Vijayapura. Bengaluru’s toll stood at 58. While the State’s average Case Fatality Rate (CFR) stood at 1.5% on Friday, Bengaluru’s CFR was 5.9%.
With 337 new cases, positive cases rose to 8,281. Of these, 138 were from Bengaluru Urban, representing a new high. These included 30 SARI and 34 ILI cases.
(With inputs from Vijayawada and Karnataka bureaus)
