Bengaluru: Following several reports of people from Kerala Furnishing a fake report to enter Karnataka, the state government plans to make it mandatory for all tourists from neighboring countries to undergo seven institutional quarantine days in Karnataka.
At present, travelers from Kerala must produce negative test reports that are no more than 72 hours to enter Karnataka.
However, officials said random fast antigen tests (mice) carried out on people who entered the country from Kerala showed many infected, despite having negative reports.
New infections every day in Kerala floated around 13,000 and the level of peposititivity test (TPR) has stagnated at 16% which is surprising for some time now.
Beware of infections can be abundant and trigger new waves, the Karnataka government plans to beg the center and the government of Kerala to carry out the order of the genome to find out whether the variant is mutated from Coronavirus riding a wave in Kerala.
“The Covid situation that applies in Kerala is a big problem,” said Dr.
MK Sudarshan, Chairman, Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee.
“We need to find out why the number of new cases and TPRs does not decrease when the situation is under control in all other states in this country.
We should not forget that the first and second waves began in Kerala and spread throughout the country.” An official The senior health department suggests several reasons for testing positive tourists is “because they show false reports, or tests are done wrongly”.
“An individual case study is underway,” said the official.
“However, we cannot risk when Covid waves are very low in Karnataka.
A more stringent examination is needed at the border.
The proposed institutional quarantine will be an effective solution.” While three residents of Kerala District Wayanad are allegedly equipped with a false negative Covid test report on MySuru on Tuesday, Kodagu District Health Officer, Dr.
K Mohan said the district government recently sent back two from Kerala after they tested positive in mice.
Dr.
Sudrshan supports the idea of ​​institutional quarantine a week and said the RT-PCR test must be done at the end of the isolation period.
In addition, people have to report themselves for another week.
He said TAC would consider this problem at the next meeting this weekend before making recommendations to the government.
The situation of the pandemic in Karnataka is under control with TPR falls below 1%.
And while Kerala showed signs of improvement, with the number of everyday cases fell from 22,064 on 29 to 13,383 on August 23, officials at Karnataka was alert, especially considering the disciple of positive rat tests on the border.
“A research is needed, and we hope the Kerala Government will work together,” said Dr.
Sudarshan.