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Daily cases come down to less than 500
The Hindu
For the second day on Monday, the total number of new COVID-19 cases fell below 500 in Belagavi district.There were only 355 new cases on Monday. The number of discharged cases were on the rise, with
For the second day on Monday, the total number of new COVID-19 cases fell below 500 in Belagavi district. There were only 355 new cases on Monday. The number of discharged cases were on the rise, with 1,219. As many as 15 persons died of COVID-19-related causes. On Sunday, there were 418 cases and 1,421 discharged patients. The case positivity rate fell to 12%-13% in the first week of June. The total number of active cases that had breached 23,000 has fallen to less than 10,000. There were only 9,605 active cases on Monday. The epidemic has claimed 651 lives till now in the district.![](/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.