Karnataka continued to record a massive spike with 40,499 new COVID-19 cases and 21 deaths on January 19. Of this, 24,135 cases were registered in Bengaluru Urban district.
Other districts that registered over a thousand new cases were Tumakuru (1,804), Hassan (1,785), Mandya (1,341), and Mysuru (1,340). As of Wednesday, there are 2,67,650 active cases across the State. As many as 23,209 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 30,23,034.
Of the 21 people who succumbed to the infection across the State, five were from Bengaluru Urban, three from Dakshina Kannada and four from Mysuru.
