The failure to stage the tracing workforce harks back to U.S. officials’ inability to build up adequate testing in the early days of the pandemic.
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
Bengaluru cop dies after collapsing in his residence, tests positive for coronavirus
The 57-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) is survived by his wife and daughter.
A 57-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) from Whitefield Police Station in Bengaluru died on Saturday night after he collapsed in the bathroom at his residence. He was immediately rushed to the hospital but he was declared dead on arrival. Swabs taken from his body later tested positive for coronavirus, Whitefield Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) MN Anuchet said. "He was at his home when it happened. He had no known comorbidities," Anuchet said. The ASI is survived by his wife and daughter. Police officials above the age of 55 have been stationed at their home since June 10. Health department officials are now tracing the contacts of the police officer. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 50 police officials in various police stations in Bengaluru have tested positive for the virus. At least four deaths have been reported among the city's police, including a 59-year-old ASI attached to Wilson Garden Traffic police station and a 56-year-old police constable from Kalasipalyam police station. The death was reported on a day 596 COVID-19 cases were reported in Bengaluru. This was a significant increase from the cases reported earlier in the week which was less than 200 per day. The cases in Bengaluru made up around 65% of the 918 COVID-19 cases which were reported in Karnataka on Saturday. The state government led by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa held a meeting on Saturday and decided to impose a lockdown on Sundays starting from July 5. In addition, a curfew will be in place in the state from 8 pm to 5 am starting Monday. Currently, a curfew is in place from 9 pm to 5 am everyday. Bengaluru police is currently subjecting all arrested or detained persons to COVID-19 tests. In addition, the police have been tasked with strictly imposing fines against people who are not wearing masks and take action against people who are violating home quarantine rules.
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Twenty-three sanitation workers in Bengaluru test positive for coronavirus
Two sanitation workers in Deepanjali Nagar and Sunkenahalli wards of the city have reportedly died of the disease.
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Random testing for the novel coronavirus has resulted in 23 sanitation workers, called pourakarmikas, in Bengaluru testing positive for the virus. This development was confirmed by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner BH Anil Kumar in a video message on Saturday. He said 23 people out of the 94 pourakarmikas who were chosen as part of a normal sample have tested positive. The Commissioner said that all of them are undergoing treatment and given all necessary help. All the 94 sanitation workers who were tested were among south and west zones. This comes after two sanitation workers reportedly died of the disease recently in Deepanjali Nagar and Sunkenahalli wards. The Hindu quoted lawyer and activist Clifton D’Rozario of the BBMP Pourakarmika Sangha who said that the random testing was a result of the pressure exerted by the workers post the demise of their colleagues. He also demanded that these workers be given protective gear including sets of personal protective equipment. Another lawyer-activist, Maitreyi Krishnan of the same association, who was quoted in the same report, said that while pourakarmikas were given masks and gloves a month ago, they have not been provided with a fresh supply. She blamed the lack of strict enforcement of waste segregation and management by the BBMP for being the root of the problem. She said this menace will continue until strict waste segregation is enforced. She said there were incidents of disposable masks being thrown as part of the mixed waste and she hinted there was a lapse in disinfecting the equipment used by them. The New Indian Express reported the victim of the Deepanjali Nagar ward was also suffering from tuberculosis and his wife was also found to be coronavirus positive. The report quoted a BBMP official saying that other persons who were working with these workers had demanded that they be tested and now finding their primary and secondary contacts poses a new challenge. The official also stated that all the 23 pourakarmikas are asymptomatic and are mostly residents of Rayapura and Jagjivanram. They will be kept in the COVID-19 care facility set up at the Sri Sri Ravishankar Ashram.
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99-year-old COVID-19 patient recovers in Bengaluru
Marceline Saldanha has become one of the oldest patients in Karnataka to recover from the disease.
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Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Karnataka govt transfers 13 IPS officers across state
PS Harsha, Commissioner of Police Mangaluru, has been transferred as DIG and Commissioner, Information and Public Relations (I and PR), Bengaluru.
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The Karnataka government has shuffled 13 senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in a major rejig effected late on Friday amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said Seemanth Kumar Singh, a 1996 batch Karnataka cadre IPS officer, currently in the role of Inspector General of Police (IGP), Administration has been transferred as IGP, Central Range, Bengaluru. Singh replaces KV Sharath Chandra, a 1997 batch Karnataka cadre IPS officer. In his new role, Chandra will function as the IGP, Administration, Bengaluru. PS Harsha, a 2004 batch IPS officer, currently in the role of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and Commissioner of Police Mangaluru, has been transferred as DIG and Commissioner, Information and Public Relations (I and PR), Bengaluru. Harsha replaces SN Siddaramappa. Similarly, Vikash Kumar Vikash, a 2004 batch IPS officer, currently in the office of DIG and Commander, Anti-Naxal Force, Karkala has been shifted as DIG and Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru, replacing Harsha. Siddaramappa, a 2005 batch IPS officer, currently in the role of DIG and Commissioner, I&PR, has been transferred as DIG, CID, Economic Offences Wing, Bengaluru, replacing K Thiyagarajan. Likewise, BS Lokesh Kumar, a 2005 batch IPS officer, currently in the office of DIG and Commissioner of Police, Belagavi has been moved as DIG, ISD, Bengaluru, a vacant role. Thiyagarajan, a 2006 batch IPS officer, currently in the role of DIG, CID, Economic Offence Wing, Bengaluru has been transferred as DIG and Commissioner of Police, Belagavi, replacing Lokesh Kumar. Suman D Pennekar, a 2013 batch IPS officer, working as the Superintendent of Police (SP), Kodagu district, has been transferred as Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), CAR (City Armed Reserve) Units, headquarters, Bengaluru, replacing Divya Sara Thomas. Harish Pandey, a 2013 batch officer, working as SP, Chikkamagaluru district has been transferred as SP, Intelligence, Bengaluru, replacing Hakay Akshay Machhindra. Thomas, a 2013 batch officer, currently in the role of DCP, CAR Units, headquarters, Bengaluru has been transferred as SP, Chamarajanagar District, replacing H.D. Ananda Kumar. Machhindra, a 2015 batch IPS officer, currently working as SP, Intelligence, Bengaluru has been transferred as SP, Chikkamagaluru, replacing Pandey. Similarly, Kshama Mishra, a 2016 batch IPS officer, currently in the role of SP, CID, Bengaluru has been posted as SP, Kodagu district, replacing Pennekar. Finally, HD Ananda Kumar, a select list 2015 officer, currently working as SP, Chamarajanagar district has been transferred as SP, ISD, Bengaluru. All of the police officers have been transferred with immediate effect.
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Saturday, June 27, 2020
Spike in COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, 596 new cases reported
Officials are yet to acknowledge whether community transmission has started.
Karnataka reported 918 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest single day increase reported in the state. 596 cases were reported in Bengaluru taking the number of active cases in the city to 1913. Though the numbers have been going up steadily in the city, Saturday witnessed a sharp spike. Bengaluru reported 144, 113 and 173 cases in the previous three days. The high number of cases were confirmed in the state health department's daily bulletin listing the COVID-19 cases reported in the state. However, the bulletin on Saturday did not specify the details of travel and contact history of the patients. Health officials are yet to acknowledge that community transmission has begun in Bengaluru. Community transmission is when people are infected with the virus without known contact with another confirmed case nor having travelled from a place affected by the pandemic. The high case load was reported even though the number of tests done - 13,577 - was lesser than the previous two days. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka rose to 11,923 of which 4441 are active cases. The spike in cases in the state was reported even as Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa announced that a lockdown will be in place in the state on Sundays starting from July 5. In addition, the curfew currently in place from 9 pm to 5 am will be effective from 8 pm to 5 am starting on Monday. Elsewhere, 49 new cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada district and 33 new cases were reported in Kalaburagi district. As many as 197 COVID-19 patients in the state are currently in the ICU. Of this, 125 patients are in Bengaluru. 11 deaths were reported on Saturday including 3 patients from Bengaluru and 3 more from Bidar district. The state health department is in the process of identifying more spaces in Bengaluru to be turned into COVID-Care Centres where asymptomatic patients will receive treatment.
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Karnataka issues new guidelines: Curfew to begin at 8pm and full lockdown on Sundays
This comes after the Chief Minister has said that there would not be a new complete lockdown in the state, ‘taking into consideration the economy’.
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The Karnataka government has issued new guidelines for the state as the number of COVID-19 patients increase steadily. The government has said that the daily curfew would be imposed an hour earlier, from 8 pm to 5 am instead of the existing curfew from 9 pm to 5 am. Further, the government has stated that full lockdown would be imposed every Sunday, with effect from July 5, 2020 until further orders. No activities shall be permitted on that day except essential services and supplies. The government has also said that government offices will work on fewer days. From July 10 onwards, government offices will be closed for the weekend, and will work for only five days a week. This comes after the Chief Minister held a meeting with his officials on Saturday evening. In Bengaluru, the Commissioner, BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) has been directed to set up more smaller wholesale vegetable markets, to avoid crowding in the large wholesale vegetable markets of the city. The Bengaluru Urban District Commissioner was told to identify more places to conduct the last rites of dead patients. The Chief Minister has also directed the formation of teams to conduct the last rites. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has directed officials to increase the number of ambulances to carry COVID patients. He has also ordered for separate ambulances for carrying the mortal remains of patients who pass away. He also directed that the police control room wireless system should be used to identify the location and the easy movement of ambulances. Yediyurappa directed officials to publish the details of nodal officers working on COVID Management. Further, it was decided to give additional responsibilities to the BBMP Joint Commissioners of the eight regions, and to appoint KAS officers to assist them to lessen the burden on the BBMP Commissioner and the central office of BBMP. The government has already begun to take necessary steps to reserve large marriage halls, hostels and other institutions in Bengaluru to make them into COVID Care Centres (CCCs, meant for asymptomatic coronavirus patients) and to avail railway coaches with beds as treatment centres. Officers were directed to have centralised bed allocation system to speed up the hospitalisation of COVID-19 patients. Previously, the BBMP Commissioner was directed to notify reservation of 50 per cent of beds in Medical colleges and private hospitals. He was also directed to notify tie up of hotels with hospitals to avoid any shortage of beds for treatment. Read: No question of fresh lockdown in Karnataka: BS Yediyurappa
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