Bengaluru: On Wednesday, Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka claimed that just about 3000 Covid-19 contaminated folks have gone lacking and lots of have switched off their cellphone. After just lately discovering out that Bengaluru officers had been solely contacting solely 4 individuals as an alternative of the mandated 20 the Karnataka authorities had just lately elevated its contact tracing exercise.
Police have been requested to hint them, the minister advised reporters.
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“We are giving free medicines to people, which can control 90% of cases, but they have (Covid-19 infected people) switched off their mobile phones. They reach the hospitals in a critical stage to desperately look for ICU beds. This is what is happening now,” the minister stated in Bengaluru in keeping with PTI.
Many of the contaminated persons are both no informing the officers about their whereabout or have switched off their telephones. He added, “I feel that at least 2,000 to 3,000 people in Bengaluru have switched off their phones and left their houses.We don’t know where they have gone”.
“I pray to them with folded hands that COVID cases will only increase due to this (behaviour).It is wrong when you reach for ICU beds at the last moment,” the minister appealed to the folks preserve their cellphone switched on and that police need to requested to hint them.
The authorities has imposed a lockdown for 14 days proscribing pointless motion of individuals ranging from Tuesday night time to include COVID circumstances, which is rising at an alarming proportion.
Over 30,000 contemporary COVID-19 circumstances had been reported on Tuesday together with over 17,000 in Bengaluru whereas the lively circumstances have exceeded three lakh within the state of which two lakh are within the state capital.
