Two years after the official start of the pandemic in Karnataka on March 8, 2020, over 39.43 lakh people have been infected by the different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and over 40,000 have lost their lives.
Over 45% of the total caseload and over 42% of the total fatalities are from Bengaluru Urban. The country’s first death was reported from Kalaburagi on March 12. The pandemic that shook the health authorities also made them realise that combating the disease meant strengthening the overall surveillance system.
