Tag: Dr Sudhakar

Karnataka’s Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee has advised strict screening of travellers arriving from 8 countries, mandatory quarantine of 7-10 days: Dr Sudhakar

April 11, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Minister, Karnataa Govt.:

  • In the wake of rise in Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world due to new variants, held a meeting with the experts of the Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to discuss about the precautionary measures to be taken in the state.

  • TAC has advised strict screening of travellers arriving from 8 countries, mandatory quarantine of 7-10 days, special focus on kids and random testing of 5,000 children in the age group that is not yet eligible for vaccine. Govt will soon release guidelines in this regard.

  • I urge all eligible citizens to get their second dose and precaution dose as per schedule to ensure additional layer of protection.

  • Let’s continue to wear mask, ensure hand hygiene, social distancing & follow covid appropriate behaviour. Together we can defeat the pandemic.

Not many would know that our State govt. spent a whopping Rs 15,645 crore to fight Covid in the last two years: Dr Sudhakar – Minister, Karnataka Govt.

March 16, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Minister, Karnataka Govt. :

Covid was a massive pandemic and our response to it had to be equally massive.

It took enormous amount of resources to fight it.

We know it took lakhs of health workers and others working tirelessly over the last two years.

Not many would know that our State government spent a whopping Rs 15,645 crore to fight Covid in the last two years.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai disclosed this during his reply to Budget 2022-23 discussions in the Legislative Assembly today.

Testing strategy in Karnataka has been revised as per the Advisory of Purposive Testing Strategy issued by the ICMR: Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

January 27, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Testing strategy in Karnataka has been revised as per the Advisory of Purposive Testing Strategy issued by the ICMR.

The new strategy advises testing only symptomatic people, At-risk groups and international travellers.

COVID cases continue to dip in Karnataka:

New cases in State: 38,083
New cases in B’lore: 17,717
Positivity rate in State: 20.44%
Discharges: 67,236
Active cases State: 3,28,711 (B’lore- 189k) Deaths:49 (B’lore- 12)
Tests: 1,86,313

185 new Omicron cases are confirmed in Bengaluru today taking the overall tally in the State to 1,115.

COVID numbers dip sharply to 17k in Bengaluru today: Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

January 22, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka:

COVID numbers dip sharply to 17k in Bengaluru today:

New cases in State: 42,470
New cases in B’lore: 17,266
Positivity rate in State: 19.33%
Discharges: 35,140
Active cases State: 3,30,447 (B’lore- 218k)
Deaths:26 (B’lore- 06)
Tests: 2,19,699

We are 0.1 % away from becoming the FIRST large state in the country to achieve 100% first dose coverage! : Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka

January 20, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka:

99.9% % and counting!

We are 0.1 % away from becoming the FIRST large state (> 4 cr adult population) in the country to achieve 100% first dose coverage!

Daily new cases in Bengaluru cross 30k today:

New cases in State: 47,754
New cases in B’lore: 30,540
Positivity rate in State: 18.48%
Discharges: 22,143
Active cases State: 2,93,231 (B’lore- 200k)
Deaths:29 (B’lore – 08)
Tests: 2,58,290

Test positivity rates in Bengaluru touched 27% today. Hospitalisation rates are low: Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

January 18, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka:

With 25,595 daily new cases today, Bengaluru surpassed the highest cases recorded in a day during second wave.

Hospitalisation rates are low.
Test positivity rates in the City touched 27% today.

New cases in State: 41,457

New cases in B’lore: 25,595

Positivity rate in State: 22.30%

Discharges: 8,353

Active cases State: 2,50,381 (B’lore- 178k)

Deaths:20 (B’lore- 07)

Tests: 1,85,872

Third case of Omicron has been detected in Karnataka: Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

December 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Third case of Omicron has been detected in Karnataka.

A 34-year-old male returning from South Africa has tested positive.

He is isolated and being treated in a govt hospital. 5 primary and 15 secondary contacts have been traced and samples sent for testing.

Dr Sudhakar – health minister, karnataka

Testing ramped up in Karnataka to over a lakh/day: Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

December 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka:

Testing ramped up in Karnataka to over a lakh/day:

New cases in State: 456

New cases in B’lore: 256

Positivity rate: 0.41%

Discharges: 330 (B’lore- 214)

Deaths: 06 (B’lore- 02)

Active cases in State: 7,132

Active cases in B’lore: 5,136

Tests: 1,10,556

Karnataka’s new guidelines for Covid: Mandatory two doses of vaccines for all Govt. employees – Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister

December 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dr Sudhakar – Health Minister, Karnataka:

New guidelines for Covid:

1. Two doses of vaccine mandatory to visit malls and cinema theatres.

2. Attendance at gatherings, meetings, conferences, etc capped at 500.

3. No events at educational institutions till Jan 15.

4. Two doses of vaccine mandatory for parents of <18 children to visit schools.

5. A fine of Rs 250 for not wearing mask in cities.

6. Mandatory two doses of vaccines for all Govt. employees.