Strict checking of passengers from Kerala and Maharashtra.
Amid the covid surge in Kerala and Maharashtra, the Karnataka government has asked the railways to ensure proper checking of passengers from these states.
CM Basavaraj Bommai told that along with the districts that border the two states, Bengaluru was also affected due to the spike in COVID cases. According to Bommai “people directly travel from these states to Bengaluru” leading to spike in novel coronavirus cases.
The chief minister revealed that the chief secretary has already spoken to railway officials and the demand of conducting compulsory COVID tests to railway passengers has also been placed. The chief minister although acknowledged the challenges Railways will face testing thousands of passengers arriving in any train at a go.
Bommai shared that the state government was taking the third wave seriously. He said that if the COVID-19 numbers experience a surge further, more precautionary measures will be taken. Speaking on his strict precautions for passengers coming from Maharashtra and Kerala, the chief minister informed that the first two waves entered the state from the two above-mentioned states.
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