<p class="title">The state on Tuesday reported 11 new cases of Covid-19, including six from the hotspot Kalabuargi. The fresh cases have upped the state's tally to 523.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The day also witnessed 14 patients walk out of hospitals post-recovery. The state now has 297 active cases while the number of deaths remain 20. </p>.<p class="bodytext">In Kalaburagi, six people, including four women, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. All six are the contacts of Patient 395, a 19-year-old man from Mominpur in the city.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth is believed to have contracted novel coronavirus from Patient 205, a 55-year-old cloth merchant who died due to Covid-19 on April 14. Six new cases have taken Kalaburagi district's Covid-19 count to 44.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The days also saw three new cases from Jamkhandi in Bagalkot district, which include a 11-year-old boy a contact of P-381, and one each from Gadag and Bengaluru. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Education Minister and Karnataka in-charge of Covid-19 briefings, S Suresh Kumar, told reporters, "In Hongasandra and Padarayanapura, we have done a random sampling of 145 and 80 people respectively. All have tested negative. There are now 120 containment zones in the city with 72,611 houses and a population of 4.78 lakh in these zones. In the buffer zones, there are 7.69 lakh houses with a population of 36,39,204," he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also issued guidelines for home isolation of very mild/pre-symptomatic Covid-19 cases, Kumar added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said, "An additional incentive of Rs 1,000 per month will be paid to ASHA workers till this June for their Covid-19-related work."</p>
<p class="title">The state on Tuesday reported 11 new cases of Covid-19, including six from the hotspot Kalabuargi. The fresh cases have upped the state's tally to 523.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The day also witnessed 14 patients walk out of hospitals post-recovery. The state now has 297 active cases while the number of deaths remain 20. </p>.<p class="bodytext">In Kalaburagi, six people, including four women, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. All six are the contacts of Patient 395, a 19-year-old man from Mominpur in the city.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth is believed to have contracted novel coronavirus from Patient 205, a 55-year-old cloth merchant who died due to Covid-19 on April 14. Six new cases have taken Kalaburagi district's Covid-19 count to 44.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The days also saw three new cases from Jamkhandi in Bagalkot district, which include a 11-year-old boy a contact of P-381, and one each from Gadag and Bengaluru. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Education Minister and Karnataka in-charge of Covid-19 briefings, S Suresh Kumar, told reporters, "In Hongasandra and Padarayanapura, we have done a random sampling of 145 and 80 people respectively. All have tested negative. There are now 120 containment zones in the city with 72,611 houses and a population of 4.78 lakh in these zones. In the buffer zones, there are 7.69 lakh houses with a population of 36,39,204," he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also issued guidelines for home isolation of very mild/pre-symptomatic Covid-19 cases, Kumar added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said, "An additional incentive of Rs 1,000 per month will be paid to ASHA workers till this June for their Covid-19-related work."</p>