Karnataka bars entry of people from five states
The Karnataka government has banned the entry of people from five states with heavy coronavirus case load, according to a minister here yesterday.
“People from the five states — Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh — will not be allowed into Karnataka,” Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J C Madhuswamy told the media in Kannada.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting during the day.
All flights from these five states into Karnataka have been banned.
Travel by road and rail to the state from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat has also been banned. The ban will be in place for eight-10 days after which it would be reviewed, he said.
Domestic travel returnees from two states have increased Covid cases in Karnataka in the past 19 hours, raising the state’s tally to 2,493, an official said yesterday.
“New cases reported from Wednesday 5pm to yesterday noon, 75,” said a health official.
Covid cases spiked in Udupi, Hassan, Chitradurga and Bengaluru Urban. Of all the cases, 1,635 are active, 809 discharges and 47 deaths.
As many as 46 new cases had a travel history to Maharashtra and six to Tamil Nadu. Seventeen of the new cases were contacts of earlier positive cases.
A 39-year-old man from Raichur is suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).
In the past 19 hours, 28 patients got discharged, nine from Yadgir, eight from Davangere, four from Vijayapura, three from Dakshina Kannada, two from Belagavi and one each from Mysuru and Bagalkote.
Among the new cases, 53 were men and 22 women, including four children below 10 years of age.
Bengaluru Urban has seen 10 deaths, followed by Kalaburagi (seven), Dakshina Kannada (six), Vijayapura (five), and the remaining from other districts.
Of the 2,418 cases till Wednesday, 8% were senior citizens, 62% men and 38% women. The state’s patient discharge rate has declined to 32%.