From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Jul 6: With continuous spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru and across Karnataka in the recent past, the State Government has revised the quarantine norms for persons coming from other states, including Maharashtra, and has made 14 days of home quarantine mandatory while waiving institutional quarantine.
The State Government has issued the revised guidelines on Monday. The new quarantine norms will be enforced until further notice.
The State Government has issued the guidelines permitting re-opening of more activities in a calibrated manner, in areas outside the containment zones, and for extending the lockdown in containment zones till July 31.
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The revised guidelines issued with effect from July 6 also permit unrestricted inter-state movement of persons and goods adhering to the standard operating procedures issue by the department of Health and Family Welfare and Revenue.
In an order, N Manjunatha Prasad, principal secretary, revenue department, said that persons coming from other states, including Maharashtra, should be placed in 14 days of home quarantine.
With the latest guidelines, no state returnee will have to undergo institutional quarantine in Karnataka as long as they are not Covid-19 positive. However, most other conditions mandated in the earlier orders will continue to be in force.
The waiver for Maharashtra returnees comes in the light of infections from that state returnees plummeting drastically in the past few days. Earlier, most infections in the southern state were traced to Maharashtra returnees.
Currently, the contacts of earlier corona positive cases are the chief contributors to the state's infections - more than 80 per cent of the cases every day.
Prasad said: "Quarantine norms are regularly reviewed and calibrated with the prevailing Unlock 2.0 guidelines and infusion of technology and community involvement to enforce strict home quarantine."
Meanwhile, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has said that the country should learn to live with coronavirus as there is no other option.
With IANS inputs