In Karnataka 8,477 new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday, taking the tally to 7,43,848.  At the same time 8,841 people recovered and discharged from various hospitals in the State. 

The total number of recoveries have gone up to 6,20,008. Yesterday 85 Covid patients lost their life and the total fatalities have increased to 10,283. 
 
As many as 1,13,538 covid active patients are taking treatment in various hospitals among them 939 are in ICU. The State conducted 1,04,811 covid tests yesterday and the total number of tests have gone up to 63,55,803.

Among the new cases 3,788 were reported in Bengaluru urban followed by Bengaluru Rural 454, Hassan 440 and Mysuru with 303 cases.

AIR correspondent reports, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C. N. Aswath Narayana has called upon the industry and academia to work along with the government to make use of technology like artificial intelligence to understand the risk of any disease at an individual level.

 
Speaking in a function in Bengaluru yesterday he said that present COVID-19 pandemic situation had shown how the virus was able to act differently on each person and hence the health risk needs to be analyzed on an individual basis rather than with a community perspective.  He further said that there is a very vast scope to use artificial intelligence to create a large platform to provide a good quality health service at an affordable cost to every citizen of the nation.

Karnataka is taking stringent measures to contain the pandemic by ensuring increase in testing and enforcing COVID-19 norms among the citizens.

With around 2,000 active COVID cases and 170 deaths and a recovery rate of over 89 per cent, Udupi district in coastal Karnataka has launched an awareness campaign called My Family, My Responsibility campaign to infuse a sense of responsibility among the family members to be vigilant about the spread of Corona virus.