Bengaluru: Karnataka is worried about the difficulty in implementing the Covid-19 testing mandate for Interstate travelers because the rules vary with the advisory of the Government Government.
On July 31, Karnataka said even people who were fully vaccinated from Kerala had to produce RT-PCR negative reports that were no more than 72 hours.
However, the central advisor said the RT-PCR test report did not need to be mandated for interstate travelers who were fully vaccinated.
Kerala has reported more than 20,000 COVID cases a day and Kareload Daily Karnataka has not crossed 2,000 since mid-July.
Some residents of the Kasargod border district have moved the Kerala High Court to the mandate.
Increasing concerns over obstacles in implementing mandates, experts who are actively involved in formulating management policies Covid Karnataka says each country must be given autonomy to make decisions about important problems that can prevent covid waves.
On August 5, Kerala wrote to Karnataka who was looking for permission to generate a negative RT-PCR report or complete the Covid-19 vaccination certificate for travelers between countries.
Kerala said it followed the same policy for incoming tourists.
The second wave in Karnataka began after Kerala students returned on August 8, regular passengers and political parties burned Covid’s final vaccination certificate on the border between states in Talapady, close to the Karnataka movement.
Experts said the surge in Karnataka cases on both waves began after the people from Kerala began to enter.
“Towards the third wave, we must control the spread of infections from positive places with high peposititiveness levels.
Although border supervision increases, there are reports of people from Kerala enter Karnataka without RT-PCR reports.
They can become an asymptomatic operator,” said an expert.
Other experts say the pressure is increasing in Karnataka to attract the RT-PCR test mandate from Kerala travelers.
“Tests cannot be mandated for people who are fully vaccinated in accordance with the Guidelines of India Government for Interstate trips.
However, the state government must be given the freedom to make their own decisions.
While Karnataka has made a mandatory test report for those from Maharashtra and Kerala, resistance more From Kerala passengers, “said the expert.
Experts claimed the second wave began in Karnataka in March 2021 after students from Kerala returned to their college in Dakshina Kannada and Bengaluru.
At least 20-25 students from Kerala enter the Kannada Dakshina with negative RT-PCR test reports every day, district officials said.