Emergency management officials fear a terrible combination of natural disasters could lead to a fresh spread of the coronavirus.
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Bengaluru has 32 containment zones, six new zones in last two days
On May 30, the number of containment zones in the city was 26. This number increased with the rising number of cases in Bengaluru.
Six new containment zones have been identified in Bengaluru in just a span of two days and this is largely due to the rise in the number of cases in the city. In just three days, 67 new cases were reported in Bengaluru. The largest spike was on May 30, where 33 cases were reported in the city. With a total of 357 cases and 115 active cases in the city, officials say that they expect the numbers to increase and thus, so will containment zones, BBMP officials say. “The number of cases is expected to increase due to the ease in restrictions in the next few days,” said Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner BH Anil Kumar. BBMP’s figures state that 41% of all the active cases in Bengaluru were reported in Shivajinagar after a 42-year-old housekeeping staff of a hospital tested positive for the novel coronavirus. So far, 57 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Shivajinagar alone, all of which were primary or secondary contacts of the housekeeping staff, otherwise known as P653. Padarayanapura, one of the first wards to be declared a containment zone, has the second-highest number of active cases at 22% of the total active cases in the city. “The situation does not seem to not improve in Padarayanapura. We are doing a lot of randomised tests here and more and more people are testing positive. Right now, we don’t know how many malls are in containment zones because the rules have changed. But if they are, they won’t be allowed to open,” said Dr Manoranjan, BBMP Health Officer for West Zone. With the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, there will be a restriction on opening commercial establishments in these areas as well. Except for Shivajinagar, Mangammanapalya, SK Garden, Padarayanapura and Hogasandra, all other 27 containment zones in Bengaluru do not have more than five cases of COVID-19. The government has decided to open malls, religious institutions and places of worship and other commercial establishments, except for movie theatres and bars and restaurants inside malls, from June 8. “Since the number of cases is expected to go up, commercial establishments in these areas will also not be allowed to operate. The task is to identify contacts quickly, which is the challenge,” Anil Kumar added.
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‘No rebellion, BJP govt will complete its term in Karnataka’: Dy CM Ashwath Narayan
Deputy CM Ashwath Narayan made the statement in response to reports of brewing discontent in the party ranks.
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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Sunday that no one would be able to destabilise the BJP government in Karnataka and it will complete the remaining three-year term. "Nobody can destabilise the government...it is stable. We will complete the remaining three-year term. In the future also, our party will remain in power," Dr Narayan, who holds the portfolio of Higher Education, IT and BT, Science and Technology, told reporters in Mysuru. He added that the recent events were due to the “minor aspirations” of some leaders. “In our party, there is no room for disgruntlement. If they have demands, they can speak to the CM,” he is reported to have said, as per the Deccan Herald. He was reacting to a question on a group of MLAs meeting at the residence of Ramesh Katti, who is keen on a Rajya Sabha entry in the coming biennial polls, and some reportedly expressing dissatisfaction at the way of functioning of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. The MLA for Vijayapura, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, one of those who attended the meeting, had expressed unhappiness over not getting his works done despite representations to the Chief Minister. Dr Narayan said there is no scope for rebellion or anti-party activities in the BJP. "There will be expectations, but so far as our party is concerned, there is no scope for such things (rebellion or anti-party activities). There are only discussions with the Chief Minister regarding various demands of the legislators,” Dr Narayan said. No one in the party in Karnataka would cross the "Lakshman Rekha," he said. Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah said that the BJP government would “fall due to infighting” and that “No Congress MLA is going to resign,” in response to a statement made by the Water Resources Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi. Jarkiholi had said that he could get some of the opposition MLAs to resign. Inputs from PTI
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Karnataka eases curbs on interstate travel: Malls, restaurants to be open from June 8
A decision to open schools, colleges, educational, training, coaching institutions will be taken in July after consulting with the stakeholders.
The Karnataka government on Sunday lifted restrictions on the inter-state and intra-state movement of people and goods as it laid the roadmap for easing lockdown in a phased manner outside the containment zones. In keeping with the directives of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar issued an order, which will immediately come into effect and "will be in force up to June 30, 2020." "There shall be no restriction on inter-state and intra- state movement of persons and goods. No separate permission/approval/e-permit will be required for such movements," the order read. Lifting restrictions on inter-State and intra-State movement of persons and goods, the order said based on public health and assessment of the prevalence of COVID-19 in various states, separate orders will be issued by Health and Family Welfare Department on inter state movement of people to Karnataka. The government order also said in the first phase, religious places and places of worship for public, hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services and shopping malls will be allowed to function from June 8. Whereas, in the second phase, a decision to open schools, colleges, educational, training, coaching institutions will be taken in July after consulting with the stakeholders. "The state government will hold consultations at the institution level with parents and other stakeholders. Based on the feedback, a decision on re-opening of these institutions will be taken in the month of July, 2020," the order read. The government will take a call on resuming international air travel of passengers, metro rail, cinema halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, entertainment parks, theatres, bars and auditoriums, assembly halls and similar places based on the assessment of the situation. It said the decision to re-start social, political, sports, entertainment, academic, cultural and religious functions and other large congregation would be taken later. The night curfew hours have been relaxed further. Instead of 7 pm to 7 am, the night curfew will be effective from 9 pm to 5 am throughout the state except for essential activities. In the containment zones, lockdown shall continue to remain in force till June 30, the order said adding that only the essential activities will be allowed there. The district and municipal authorities have to identify the buffer zones outside the containment zones. The government has appealed to those above 65 years of age, persons with co-morbidities, pregnant women, and children below the age of 10 years to stay at home, except for essential and health purposes.
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299 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, state crosses 3,000 mark
Of the new cases on Sunday, 252 of the patients had returned from Maharashtra, while seven are foreign returnees.
On the last day of Lockdown 4.0, Karnataka reported 299 coronavirus cases, the highest single-day rise recorded in the state yet. The cases reported on Sunday saw the total number of cases in the state soar over the 3,000-mark. The state has now reported 3,221 cases since the first case was reported on March 8. Of the new cases on Sunday, 252 of the patients had returned from Maharashtra, while seven are foreign returnees. Meanwhile, the contacts of 19 patients, including 10 from Bengaluru Urban district, are still being traced. The spike in cases was reported even as the Karnataka government issued orders for phase-wise relaxation of the lockdown in the state along the lines of the guidelines issued by the Union government. After 33 cases were reported on Saturday, 21 more COVID-19 cases were reported from Bengaluru Urban district on Sunday. This includes four more patients connected to the cases that emerged in a slum in DG Halli in the city, where a 38-year-old woman with a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) tested positive on May 25. The area in DG Halli, where she stays, has been declared a containment zone by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). A rise in COVID-19 cases was reported in the Kalyana Karnataka region in the north-eastern part of the state. On Sunday, 83 cases were reported in Raichur district, which until May 18 had not recorded any COVID-19 case. Of this, 82 are returnees from Maharashtra while one had returned to the district from Bengaluru. This takes the number of cases reported in Raichur to 217. Forty-four new cases were reported in Yadgir district, a stark contrast from two weeks ago when only two positive cases were reported in the district. As on Sunday, the north Karnataka district has recorded 285 COVID-19 cases. Thirty-three new cases were reported in Bidar district while Kalaburagi and Vijayapura districts recorded 28 and 26 new cases respectively. The cases in coastal Karnataka also increased on Sunday with 14 cases reported in Dakshina Kannada, 10 cases in Udupi and five cases in Uttara Kannada. The cases in the coastal region of the state, too, had increased in tandem with the return of people residing in other states, over the last two weeks. Thirteen cases each were reported in Mandya and Belagavi while six cases were also reported in Davangere and one each in Ballari, Shivamogga and Kolar. The six new cases reported on Sunday from Davangere include three healthcare workers who worked at a COVID-19 isolation ward. Two deaths were reported in the state on Sunday, taking the total death to ( ). This includes a 50-year-old man from Raichur district, who had returned from Maharashtra on May 21. He was diagnosed with SARI, severe pneumonia, sepsis and respiratory failure. A 75-year-old man from Bidar district, too, succumbed after developing fever, breathlessness and hypertension. He was a resident of a containment zone in Bidar and was admitted to a private hospital on 18 May. He died at his residence on May 29 before his test result returned positive on Sunday. Two days ago, the state reported 248 new cases, a majority of which were people who returned from Maharashtra. The active cases in the state is now 1,950 while 1,218 people have made a full recovery after being infected by the virus.
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33 new COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, 11 traced to containment zone in DG Halli
The slum area in Bengaluru’s DG Halli, where the 11 cases were reported, has been demarcated as a containment zone with no activity allowed inside.
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Thirty-three coronavirus cases were reported in Bengaluru on Saturday, setting off alarm bells among the health department officials in Karnataka as it is the highest single-day increase in the number of COVID-19 cases reported in the city. Eleven cases have been traced to patient 2180, a 38-year-old woman with a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), who tested positive on May 25. She is a resident of a slum area in DG Halli in Bengaluru and lives with a family of more than 10 members. Many of her family members are among those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in this cluster, including a two-year-old baby, a five-year-old boy and an eight-year-old boy. The slum area in DG Halli, where the cases were reported, has been demarcated as a containment zone with no activity allowed inside. While 11 patients were traced as contacts of the woman, health officials said that several other cases, which are marked as 'contacts under tracing', are also from the same cluster in DG Halli. This takes the number of cases reported in Bengaluru Urban to 336, the highest amongst the districts in the state. In the three days prior to Saturday, the state health department reported just 27 cases from Bengaluru, many of whom had returned from abroad or other states, including Tamil Nadu and New Delhi. But the cases reported on Saturday include patients who contracted the virus from the containment zone now marked out in DG Halli. The number of cases reported in Karnataka rose to 2,922 on Saturday after 141 cases were recorded in the state. With the rising number of cases, the state health department decided to do away with the mid-day bulletin and will report state-wide figures only in the evening. Health officials further confirmed that more than 1 lakh 10 thousand people were currently quarantined across 4,290 quarantine centres in the state. This includes 14,791 people who are under observation for being the primary contacts, and 13,747 people who are the secondary contacts. A total of 997 patients have recovered from the disease in the state.
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Bengaluru corporator greets large crowd after testing positive for coronavirus, booked
Visuals of Pasha waving and greeting to his supporters on board an ambulance went viral on social media platforms.
A day after he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, Bengaluru police booked Padarayanapura ward corporator Imran Pasha on Saturday for violating physical distancing norms and other related offences. The complaint was registered by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials after he allegedly resisted cooperating with health officials to go into a treatment facility. “He was informed that he should be admitted on Friday night itself. But he neglected this and kept delaying his admission. When we went to his house on Saturday he made us wait, later while he was getting on the ambulance, his supporters gathered and shouted slogans. So he was knowingly not cooperating and increasing the chance of spread of infection,” Dr Manoranjan Hegde, BBMP West Health Officer stated to TNM. Imran Pasha, JD(S) corporator of Padarayanapura in Bengaluru, seen here greeting a crowd after testing positive for COVID-19. An FIR has been registered against him. Video via @nolanentreeo pic.twitter.com/9nSzQj2rH7 — Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) May 31, 2020 Visuals of Pasha waving and greeting his supporters on board an ambulance went viral on social media platforms. The video was shot as he was being taken to Victoria Hospital from his residence on Saturday afternoon. In the same video he can be seen getting off the ambulance to touch the feet of an elderly woman. This had attracted scathing criticism from social media users. Jagajeevanram Nagar police station inspector Shivaji Rao confirmed the development and said that procedural action was being taken. The First Information Report against him has been registered under sections 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 270 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) 271 (disobedience of quarantine rule) of the Indian Penal Code and the provisions of the National Disaster Management Authority Act. Pasha had tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday evening. It later came to light that the corporator had tested positive without any known contact with an already infected individual or any relevant travel history. Padarayanapura ward, incidentally, has the highest number of cases in Bengaluru with a total of 67 cases as of Saturday evening. It was sealed off during the initial days of the lockdown. It had made headlines after violence erupted on April 20 in the ward. Many residents of the ward began rioting after they were asked by BBMP and health department officials to undergo institutional quarantine. At the time 11 persons were confirmed positive for COVID-19 from the ward including four Tablighi Jamaat attendees. Following the violence, around 120 persons were arrested out of whom five tested positive for the disease.
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