Covid 19: At 3.6%, Karnataka's 5-day average growth in +ve cases below national average

Bengaluru: Minister S Suresh Kumar, who is spokesperson for COVID-19 in Karnataka on Tuesday, May 5 informed that the average compounded daily growth rate of positive coronavirus cases during the last five days in Karnataka was below the national average during the same period.

“In March, Karnataka was in third place, today we are in 13th place…the average compounded daily growth rate of positive cases during the last five days shows- the national average at 5.97 per cent, while Karnataka’s is 3.13 per cent,” Kumar told reporters.

Breiefing about the statistics, Kumar said that most number of infections have been reported in Bengaluru urban with 153 cases, followed by Mysuru 88 and Belagavi 71. Out of total 331 patients discharged so far maximum 80 are from Mysuru, 75 from Bengaluru urban, 26 from Belagavi.

A total of 83,806 samples were tested so far, out of which 4,613 were tested on Tuesday alone.

So far 78,860 samples have reported as negative, and out of them 4,196 were reported negative on Tuesday.