Karnataka adds new 26,811 cases of COVID-19, 530 more deaths

Karnataka Wednesday reported 530 more deaths as the toll rose to 26,399 since March 10 last year. While Bengaluru Urban reported 285 deaths, the capital city also recorded 6,433 new infections and 18,342 recoveries.

Across the state, recoveries (57,333) continued to outnumber fresh infections (25,311) as testing dropped to



1,08,723.

Meanwhile, test positivity rate (TPR) dropped to 19.48 per cent as the declining trend of recoveries (40,741) outnumbering the new cases (26,811) continued. This is the first time TPR has dropped below 20 per cent since April 27. The active caseload across the state has also dropped to 4,09,924 with 2,07,357 of them in Bengaluru Urban alone.