<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In Karnataka, 271 new COVID positive cases were reported yesterday taking the total to 6,516 and 464 patients were discharged from various hospitals in the state. In Udupi district alone, 125 patients were discharged from the hospital. With seven more deaths the total number of deaths increased to 79. </span></p> <br />''In all, 9,835 swab tests were conducted in various parts of the state and the total number of sample test increased to 4,26,341. Meanwhile, the sero-surveillance study jointly conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research, National Tuberculosis Institute and Government of Karnataka in May in three districts revealed that 0.25% of the surveyed population in Bengaluru and Kalaburagi showed an evidence of past exposure to SARS COV-2 at the time of survey.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">According to a statement from the Health Department, 400 samples each were tested in Chtradurga and Bengaluru and 399 in Kalaburagi.  Of these, one sample each tested positive in Bengaluru and Kalaburagi.</span><br />