The Karnataka government has decided to supply Remdesivir to private hospitals to check black marketing and hoarding. The decision was taken by the task force committee meeting yesterday. <br />''<br />''It was also decided to purchase 4 lakh antigen test kits and 5 lakh swab test kits to ramp up testing. This will help to achieve the target of 50,000 tests per day.<br />''<br />''The task force committee fixed the rate for Covid tests in private labs at 2,000 rupees for Government referred cases and 3,000 for self-reporting cases. It was decided that the oxygen pipeline will be connected to 4,736 beds in 17 Government medical colleges. <br />''<br />''This will enable high flow oxygen for these beds and be beneficial for the future use as well. Approval was given for purchase of equipment and upgradation of existing facilities at government hospitals at a cost of 500 Crore rupees.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, in Karnataka  3649 new Covid -19 positive  cases were reported yesterday, among them 1,714 cases were reported from Bengaluru.  A total of 1664 patients were recovered from various hospitals and the total recovered patients has gone up to 25,459. 61 patients succumbed to the disease and the total deaths increased to 1464. 44,140 active cases are prevailing in the State.  <br />''<br />''In a single day yesterday 43,904 swab samples were tested and the total tests had gone up to 10,64,734.  583 covid patients  were in ICU in various hospitals and 336 were reported from Bengaluru. The State recovery rate is  35.84   percent and the mortality rate is 2.06  percent. <br />