Bengaluru: Karnataka registered 19 new cases on Wednesday morning taking the total positive cases of COVID-19 to 692.
This includes, three from Dakshina Kannada, two from Bengaluru Urban, one from Kalaburgi and 13 from Bagalkote.
After two days of Covid-19 cases spike in Davangere, Badami has emerged as the new point with 13 cases.
All the 13 Badami cases were contacts of positive case 607, a 23-year-old woman from the same place who was admitted in a Dharwad hospital and was also being investigated for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).
On adding the new cases, Bagalkote is currently battling 47 patients, breaching Davangere’s 44 cases but has recorded only one death hitherto.
A total of 345 patients have been discharged.