Covid cases dip, but hospital admissions stay up in Bengaluru

Team Udayavani, Jul 19, 2021, 3:55 PM IST

Bengaluru: Although COVID-19 cases in the city are falling, hospital admissions are seeing a marginal rise.

On July 4, 33 people had got admitted, and on July 5, 40 persons were admitted to hospitals.

Between July 13 and 16, 1,674 positive cases were reported in Bengaluru, but the city hospitals saw 127 hospital admissions.

On July 13, Bengaluru reported 401 COVID-19 cases and saw 22 hospital admissions and on July 16, Covid cases were at 411 and hospital admissions were at 46.

Karnataka on Sunday registered 1,708 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the total cases to 28,83,947 while 36 deaths pushed the toll to 36,157, the Health department said.

There were 29,291 active cases in the state while as many as 2,463 patients recovered in the state taking the total recoveries to 28,18,476.

Bengaluru Urban district reported 386 infections, which is the highest among all the districts of the state whereas nine deaths were recorded on Sunday.

The city has so far reported 12,22,189 infections and 15,796 deaths.