Karnataka on Wednesday reported as many as 81 deaths, including a two-month-old male baby in Belagavi. This is the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities during the third wave. The baby was diagnosed with Influenza-like Illness (ILI) and admitted with symptoms of fever and cough on January 17. However, he succumbed on January 30.
While Bengaluru Urban and Dakshina Kannada reported 10 and 13 deaths respectively on Wednesday, six districts reported zero deaths. With this, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) rose to 0.39%.
Apart from the 81 deaths, 32 were of patients due to non-COVID-19 reasons.