8 new +ve cases of COVID-19 confirms in Karnataka, total tally reaches 91

Eight more positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of the affected in the state to91, the Health department said here on Monday. The state government asked all those in home quarantine to send selfies with their GPS coordinates every one hour to it, failing which they would be sent to mass quarantine centres.

"Three people of the same family from Hosapetehave confirmed for COVID-19 today.Total number of infected inKarnataka has increased to 91. They have been admitted at isolated



ward," state Health Minister B Sriramulu tweeted late in the evening.

Earlier in the day the department in a bulletin had said 88 COVID-19 positive cases had so far been confirmed in the state, which includes three deaths and six discharges.

Of the 79 active cases, 78 patients in isolation at designated hospitals are stable and one is on ventilator, it had said, adding six out of total of 88 cases were transit passengers who landed at airports in the state and were being treated in hospitals in Karnataka.