With an addition of 229 cases on Sunday, the active COVID-19 cases in Karnataka jumped up to 1,000, according to the bulletin shared by the Department of Health and Family Welfare. Bengaluru Urban district had the highest number of positive cases, 64.
While 50 infected persons were hospitalised as of Saturday with 15 of them being treated in ICUs, on Sunday the numbers went up to 57 hospitalisations and 22 ICU patients.
A total of 13 COVID-19 related deaths have been registered in the State since December 15, out of which, three patients were infected by the new JN.1 sub-variant.
Experts have so far said that there is no need for alarm in the State as the highly infectious new variant, JN.1, seems to be severely affecting only those who are elderly or have comorbidities.
Health Department officials also said that 90% of the deaths were also largely owing to the presence of comorbidities. While there was a 10-fold increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the State in the last 10 days, officials said that it could not necessarily be called a “wave”.
