Returnees from domestic travel to three Indian states led to a spike in COVID-19 cases in Karnataka with 101 new infections, raising the state's tally to 2,283, an official said on Tuesday.
"New cases reported from Monday 5 p.m. to Tuesday noon, 101," said a health official.
In the past 19 hours, 81 people who returned from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand tested positive for the virus.
On Tuesday, 46 per cent or 47 cases had an inter-state travel history to Maharashtra, India's COVID hotspot.
Similarly, 21 per cent or 21 cases had inter-state travel history to southern state Tamil Nadu, a bigger COVID sufferer than Karnataka.
Likewise, 13 returnees from Jharkhand have also tested positive.
Incidentally, four new cases also had international travel history to Qatar.
Eighty four per cent of the new cases had travel history, dwarfing the number of people contracting the disease through contacts.
Unlike before, most positive cases in the state nowadays are people with a travel history to Maharashtra, India's COVID hotspot.
In the past 24 hours, only 12 contracted the virus from earlier positive cases, constituting just 12 per cent of the new cases.
A 47-year-old woman from Davangere is suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).
A 27-year-old man from Koppal is suffering from Influenza Like Illness (ILI).
Similarly, another 55-year-old woman from Davangere is suffering from ILI.
Among the new cases, 72 are men and 29 are female, including five cases below 10 years of age.
Of the new cases, Chitradurga contributed (20), Afollowed by Yadagiri (14), Belagavi and Hassan (13 each), Davangere (11), Bidar (10), Vijayapura (6), Udupi (3), Bengaluru Urban (2), Chikkaballapura, Ballari and Koppal (1 each).
As many as 43 patients got discharged in the past 24 hours, 17 from Bagalkote, 14 in Belagavi, seven from Uttara Kannada, two from Gadag and one each in Kalaburagi, Bengaluru Urban and Chikkaballapura.
Of all the cases, 1,489 are active, 748 discharges and 18 patients are admitted in ICU.
In the past 24 hours, Karnataka tested 9,020 people for COVID, out of which 8,169 were negative.
In total, 2.28 lakh samples were tested, out of which 2.23 lakh were negative.
Top five places with active cases in the state include Mandya (227), Davangere (133), Yadagiri (122), Hassan (118) and Bengaluru Urban (116).
Bengaluru Urban has seen nine deaths, followed by Kalaburagi and Dakshina Kannada (7 each), Davangere and Vijayapura (4 each), and the remaining from other districts.
Of the 2,283 cases, eight per cent were senior citizens, and 62 per cent men and 38 per cent women. The state's patient discharge rate has declined to 33 per cent.
( With inputs from IANS )