Karnataka reports 299 new cases; state tally crosses 3,000-mark

Karnataka's COVID-19 tally crossed 3,000-mark, a record jump of 299 infections in the past 24 hours, mostly constituting returnees from Maharashtra, raising the state's tally to 3,221, an official said on Sunday. "New cases reported from Saturday 5 p.m. to Sunday 5 p.m. are 299," said a health official. Continuing the trend of the past several days, domestic returnees formed the lion's share of new cases, accounting for 258 or 86 per cent of the cases. Of the 258 returnees, 252 returned from Maharashtra alone, 98 per cent of the domestic returnees.

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