patiala punjab health and family welfare minister dr balbir singh on wednesday said the state government was ready for any kind of exigency the minister who was at government rajindra hospital to review arrangements at covid isolation ward said the state was had requisite bed capacity and ventilators in hospitals besides having adequate arrangements of ppe kits masks and testing kits to deal with the further spread of the virus tnn bengaluru karnataka health minister b sriramulu was discharged from the bowring and lady curzon medical college and research institute in bengaluru on sunday after recovering from covid19 the health minister had tested positive for covid19 on august 9 and was admitted to the bowring and lady curzon hospital he is the first government official to be admitted to a government hospital while other mlas had been admitted to private hospitals currently karnataka has a total of 81284 active cases and 134811 recoveries so far 3831 deaths have been reported from the state