Thousands leave Bengaluru fearing fresh lockdown
Kiran.Parashar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: 05.07.2020
Faced with a surge in Covid-19 cases and fearing another lockdown, thousands of Bengalureans were headed back to their hometowns, lining up bumper to bumper on the city’s exit roads on Saturday.
Amid murmurs of another lockdown after the SSLC examination, several workers from other parts of Karnataka headed home. There were huge snarls on Tumakuru road and other exit routes. Some said they had vacated their houses in the city and moving back home permanently. Authorities said traffic jams on Mysore Road were due to ongoing repairs. With total lockdown imposed on Sunday, effective from 8pm on Saturday, people left the city early in the morning.
KSRTC officials said many people are moving out of Bengaluru since Class 10 exams are over. Covid cases have surged in Bengaluru in the past 10 days and the health infrastructure has come under strain. As of July 4, the city has 7,250 patients under treatment.
“The cases in Bengaluru are rapidly rising and there are no hospitals to admit these patients. I am very worried about my life. I will work in the fields for my living. I will never come back to Bengaluru,” said a cab driver.
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HP to open for tourists, but e-pass must
Himachal Pradesh plans to soon allow outsiders and tourists to enter the state. However, the state government has made it mandatory for people willing to travel to the state to ensure they register. “It has been decided to open the state to tourists, the tourism department of the state government will issue standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the functioning of the tourism industry,” chief minister Jai Ram Thakur said. All inter-state movement will be monitored through registration using Covid e-pass software to ensure compliance with quarantine requirements and facilitate contact tracing of persons in the event a Covid-19-positive case is detected. TNN Full report on www.toi.in
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