Week-long lockdown imposed in Bengaluru from July 14
A one-week lockdown has been imposed in Karnataka’s Bengaluru starting 8 pm on July 14 till 5 am on July 23. All essential services will continue to ply during the lockdown.
Lockdown in Bengaluru starting 8 pm on July 14 till 5 am on July 23.
A one-week lockdown has been imposed in Karnataka’s Bengaluru starting 8 pm on July 14 till 5 am on July 23.
All essential services will continue to ply during the lockdown.
This comes days after the city, which was once being hailed for its Covid control programme, went under a 33-hour-long strict lockdown “with no exceptions” on July 4.
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, meanwhile, went under home quarantine on Friday, while his office-cum-residence in Bengaluru was sealed after some of the staff there tested positive for coronavirus.
According to a close aide of the CM, his office-cum-residence ‘Krishna’ has been sealed for five days for sanitisation after some staff tested positive for the virus.
This is the second time the office has been shut. About a month ago, the building was closed for disinfection after a relative of a police constable posted there was infected by the virus.
Grappling with a sharp spike in Covid-19 cases, Karnataka government on Friday had said it would conduct 20,000 rapid antigen tests in Bengaluru from July 11.
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The government said it hopes that the rapid antigen tests would help in increasing the number of tests and bring down the load on testing on labs, as antigen kits would allow faster diagnosis without laboratory examination.
“We have taken steps to conduct about 20,000 antigen tests from July 11 itself, one lakh antigen kits have come, we will get two lakh more antigen kits,” state Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar had said.
