Corona rips Chamrajnagar off its green tag

Bengaluru: Chamarajanagar district which tightly safeguarded its region ever since the Corona outbreak, had to forego its 'green tag'. An interstate returnee from Maharashtra tested positive on Tuesday.

It should be noted that despite sharing its borders with Tamil Nadu which is having the second highest case load in India and Kerala, Chamarajanagar had not recorded a single case. With the entry of Corona to Chamarajanagar, almost all the 30 districts in Karnataka have at least one case.

Karnataka recorded 161 cases of which 91 are interstate travellers. Maharashtra is continuing to add up more cases in the state. Out of 161, 84 are returnees from Maharashtra and 24 are international passengers.

The fresh cases are - 61 from Yadagiri, 29 from Bengaluru, 23 from Dakshin Kannada, 10 from Kalburagi, 9 from Bidar, 8 from Davangere, 6 from Koppala, 4 from Shivamogga, 2 each from Vijayapura, Chikkaballapura, Mysuru, Dharwad and one each from Dharwad, Bagalkot, Tumkur and  Chamrajnagar.

In 13 cases across the state, health officials are yet to trace the source of infection. The state recorded two more deaths - one from Bengaluru and one from Kalburing on Monday. The total death tally in the state now stands at 66 and Bengaluru leads them with 19 deaths.

Chamrajnagar administration is not worried much, as the returnee from Maharastra was under institutional quarantine and now shifted to designated hospital, preventing any chances of the virus spread to others.

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Nineteen cases out of 29 cases were primary contacts of the infected persons. Three cases are international returnees from Kuwait and in three cases the source of infection is yet to be traced by the health officials. The city has 204 active cases.