<span style="color: #222222;">In Karnataka, the recovery rate in COVID-19 infections stands at 57 percent with 7507 discharges and 5472 active cases. This was announced by Medical Education Minister Dr. K Sudhakar in a tweet. The state has tested over five lakh 95 thousand samples. The positivity rate  is 2.21 percent and over five lakh 66 thousand are negative. The mortality rate in the state remains low at 1.56 percent.<br />''<br />''On the  surge in positive cases in Bengaluru, he has tweeted that on June 23rd there were 1556 COVID-19 cases which has doubled to 3419 on June 28th.  Bengaluru now has 25.92 percent of the  total cases in Karnataka.<br />''<br />''The Government is taking corrective measures to streamline quarantine procedures. Revenue Minister R Ashoka informed media persons in Bengaluru today that the private testing labs taking samples of people were directly informing people who turn corona positive. This has now been stopped. The labs have to upload the results now on ICMR and BBMP city corporation portals. After allotment of the beds for positive patients, the municipal ward level officers will approach the patients and take them to hospital.<br />''<br />''The Standard Operating Procedure is also in place now for quarantining separately symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. He also said that efforts are on to increase beds which will be numbered. Doctors and other frontline warriors will display their names, video recording of treatment for internal assessment will be started and food quality will be improved in hospitals and sealed down areas. </span><br />