BALLARI: The discharge of a patient, who had recovered from Covid-19, from the Sandur taluk Covid hospital on May 11 left Ballari with zero active cases. Ballari, along with 10 other districts across the state, has managed to rid itself of the infection. Not only does Ballari have no active Covid cases, the district has not reported a single fatality from the infection since May 8.
The undivided Ballari district, which includes the newly-created Vijayanagara, had, following the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in the summer of 2020, managed to keep the novel coronavirus at bay, with not a single case being reported till the last week of March. However, with migrant workers from neighbouring states returning home, the Covid curve spiralled upwards. The district was even more severely affected in the second iteration of the pandemic, with more than 20,000 people getting infected in four months. Worse still, the district’s fatality rate was as high as 2%.
