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11,958 new cases, 340 deaths
The Hindu
Karnataka on Monday reported 11,958 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total to 27,07,481. Of these, 1,992 cases are from Bengaluru Urban.With 340 deaths, the toll rose to 31,920. This is apart from 21
Karnataka on Monday reported 11,958 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total to 27,07,481. Of these, 1,992 cases are from Bengaluru Urban. With 340 deaths, the toll rose to 31,920. This is apart from 21 deaths of patients due to non-COVID-19 reasons. As many as 27,299 persons were discharged on Monday, taking the total recoveries to 24,36,716. The State now has 2,38,824 active patients.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.