Karnataka: Alarming surge
(WorldNews India)

The number of COVID-19 cases continues to spiral in Karnataka, making it the State with the highest number of active cases after Maharashtra. THERE is no respite in the spread of COVID across Karnataka. A lull in the rate of infection for a few days in the first week of September gave rise to hopes that the situation was improving. These hopes were dashed when 9,000-odd cases were reported every day from September 9, taking the total number of active cases to more than one lakh. The situation is particularly worrying in Bengaluru which, as some news reports have pointed out, has surpassed Mumbai as the city with the second highest number of active cases in the country after Delhi. Karnataka...