New Delhi: The Karnataka authorities is predicted to take a choice on imposing lockdown-like restrictions on Monday (April 26) in a bid to curb the transmission of COVID-19.
In a gathering scheduled at 11 am, the state cupboard will decide on implementing lockdown-like restrictions on all days of the week throughout Karnataka. Besides lockdown, the cupboard can be mulling offering freed from price COVID-19 vaccinations, official sources informed PTI.
“Weekend curfew restrictions are in place till May 4 and as per the guidelines, it will be there next Saturday, Sunday also. Discussions are on whether to enforce curfew on weekdays, whether to go for complete lockdown or not,” Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar was quoted as saying by the information company.
The state minister mentioned that the cupboard will focus on the difficulty on Monday, following which Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa would announce the choice. “We should not in favour of lockdown, however the state of affairs is such that we’ve to impose restrictions to convey issues below management…We have to break the chain, it’s a matter of 10-12 days, let’s have a look at… Once the numbers (instances) come down, restrictions can even scale back,” Shettar informed reporters in Dharwad.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned “such proposals (lockdown) did not come during yesterday’s meeting. So I don’t want to comment on speculations. For now things will continue as it is.”
Amid record-breaking rise in coronavirus instances, Karnataka on April 21 imposed night time curfew from 9 pm to 6 am day by day in addition to a weekend curfew from Friday 9 pm to Monday 6 am. These curbs will final until May 4.
Karnataka registered 34,804 new COVID-19 instances in a day, of which Bengaluru accounted for 20,733 instances, in accordance to the state well being bulletin launched on Sunday. The state’s whole caseload mounted to 13,39,201, together with 2,62,162 energetic instances.
(With inputs from companies)
