Bengaluru: Karnataka, like several other parts of India, has been under lockdown for a year, and the southern state registered 2010 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to over 9.73 lakh.

On March 23 Bengaluru Urban continued to report the newest cases of any district in Karnataka, with 1280 new cases, as five more deaths across the state were associated with the pandemic.

Nearly 70 percent of the total 15,595 cases in the state are in Bengaluru Urban alone. Other districts that reported most cases on Tuesday are Kalaburagi (129), Mysuru (100), Bidar (76), Dakshina Kannada (74), and Tumkur (40).