<span style="color: #212529;">Bengaluru urban district in Karnataka has turned into an epicentre of Covid cases in the state with cases surging to 15,615 yesterday. The number of active cases in the state capital has swelled to 73,654. The micro containment zones have jumped up to 479 with Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli reporting the highest number of containment zones. Our Bengaluru correspondent says that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has initiated steps to contain the spread of the pandemic in the city.<br />'' <br />''The Central war room and zonal war rooms are now working round the clock. The war rooms are keeping a tab on the positive cases, triaging and hospitalization, oxygen availability and infection of children in the city. The Covid tests have now increased from 80,000 per day to about 1.3 lakh daily. By Friday 27 Covid Care Centres will be ready for Covid positive patients. The mobile triage units are visiting the Covid positive patients to check for symptoms.<br />'' </span><br />''<span style="color: #222222;">All the 198 wards in the Corporation limits have one or two mobile triage units. As of now there are 3237 beds in Government hospitals, 2696 beds in Government medical colleges, 13,540 beds in private hospitals and 8594 beds in private medical colleges to treat Covid patients in the state. The Covid website </span><a href="http://apps.bbmpgov.in/covid19/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://apps.bbmpgov.in/covid19/&source=gmail&ust=1642145942664000&usg=AOvVaw0b0EVbOMl7xnDQVk3tdZQQ">apps.bbmpgov.in/covid19/</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and helpline 1533 are helping the public with all Covid related information.</span><br />