In 10 days, Bengaluru’s Covid-19 recovery rate doubles to 50.3 per cent

Bengaluru: The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients in Bengaluru has doubled to 50.3% in the 10 days to August 6, officials said. Of the 67,425 Covid-19 cases reported in the capital in the past five months, so far 33,932 patients have recovered from the disease and been discharged from healthcare centres. The recovery rates in Bengaluru and Karnataka (50.7%) are still below the national recovery rate of 67.62%.

Officials said the recovery rate is expected to grow in the coming days. “Bengaluru’s recovery rate plummeted in July compared with other major cities because of the late outbreak of the infection. The number of new cases reported has remained almost the same in the past two weeks, while there has been a jump in the daily discharges,” a BBMP official said.

Twice this week, the number of patients discharged in Bengaluru and the state was higher than the new cases reported, and officials expect the uptrend to continue. Ten days ago, Karnataka’s recovery rate of Covid-19 patients was 37%.


The jump in the recovery rate over the past week has come as a relief to the administration after the state saw a surge in new Covid cases from mid-July.

Among the 31 districts, including Bengaluru urban, Yadagiri has reported the highest recovery rate of 73.8%, followed by Vijayapura at 70%. Both the districts are in the under-developed North Karnataka region where health facilities are limited. The lowest recovery rate is in Belagavi at 26.4%.

Officials said the majority of Covid-positive persons are asymptomatic. According to the state Covid-19 War Room data, only 14% of Covid-positive persons in Bengaluru urban district were symptomatic. In Yadgir and Vijayapura, which have reported the highest recoveries, only 9.1% and 5.7%, respectively, are symptomatic. Also nearly half of the cases in Karnataka are in the age group of 20-40.