Coronavirus (Covid-19) India Lockdown News Live Updates: Karnataka on Wednesday has reported over 50,112 new Covid-19 cases out of which 23,106 cases are reported from Bengaluru. The state has also reported 346 more deaths, out of which 161 is coming out from the capital city Bengaluru. Karnataka now has a positivity rate of 32.28%.
K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor has given a warning that the third wave would be unavoidable quotes “A phase three is inevitable, given the higher level of revolving virus but it is not clear on what time scale the phase three will occur. Vaccines are effective against the current variant.
New variant will arise all over the world and in India too but variant that increase transmission will likely plateau. Immune evasive variant and those with lower or increase disease severity will arise going ahead,” he said.
As soon as taking the oath as the chief minister for the third time, Mamata Banerjee has released a list of new restrictions to tackle the Covid-19 virus in West Bengal. All local trains in the state are suspended from Thursday, From May 7 no air passengers are allowed to enter the state premises without RT-PCR negative reports and not older than 3 days.
People entering Bengal through long-distance train, Inter State buses should carry RT-PCR negative reports. Offices in Bengal should operate with occupancy of 50%. Moreover starting from Thursday banks will function from 10am to 2pm. Metro train and government run transport will only take 50% occupancy.
India has reported a record of 3,780 deaths in the last 24 hours, which is the highest ever toll of deaths since the pandemic has begun. Over 900 deaths recorded from Maharashtra, 338 and 351 are from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh respectively. At least all state has more than 100 deaths recorded so far in 24 hours. Active cases are more than 34.87 lakhs around India.
