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Bengaluru Lockdown: What’s Open, What’s Closed & Where to Go
If you live in Bengaluru or are visiting, here’s everything you need to know about the coronavirus lockdown.
Arun Dev
India
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Roads empty in Bengaluru during the janata curfew.
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Nine districts in Karnataka where patients were tested positive for COVID-19 virus will be under lockdown until 31 March, said a statement from the office of the chief minister. As per the statement, the districts under lockdown are:
Bengaluru Urban
Bengaluru Rural
Mangaluru
Kalaburagi
Kodagu
Chikaballapura
Mysuru
Belagavi
Dharwad
In these nine districts, all commercial activity will be stopped, and only essential services will be operating.
Bommai also added there will not be any public transport on Monday, 23 March.
Non-Bengaluru Residents to Be Quarantined by Govt
Since Bengaluru city is under lockdown, the Karnataka Health Department has announced that non-Bengaluru residents in city who had been asked to go on home quarantine, will be taken in by the government.
“All persons who are in home quarantine and are not residents of Bengaluru but are staying in hotels/lodges/hostels etc will be taken to mass quarantine centres of Department of Health and Family Welfare. This is to help them as transport facilities are also stopped. Media is requested to bring it to everyone’s notice.”
Statement from Karnataka Health Department
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