First set of intl pssngrs likely to arrive in K’taka on May 8; SOP issued

Team Udayavani, May 5, 2020, 9:57 PM IST

Bengaluru: In continuation to the Government of India decision on allowing Indian citizens to come back to country from abroad, the Commissioner Health and Family Welfare Services, Karnataka, has issued Standard Operative Procedure for handling international travelers landing in the state.

Health Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey said passengers may come through Bengaluru and Mangaluru airports and Karwar and Mangaluru sea ports in the state, where we will have large number of health screening teams.

Stating that following screening passengers will be divided into two sets, one symptomatic and other asymptomatic, he said, symptomatic will be taken to dedicated COVID health centres (isolation hospitals) and non-symptomatic will be taken to hotels or hotels of choice, where they will be quarantined on cost.

For both symptomatic and asymptomatic swab tests will done, he said, adding that an approximate list of 10,000 passengers has come from the Central government and the first set of passengers may land in the state on May 8.

The government has issued the notification on the regulations under ‘Karnataka Epidemic Disease Regulation, 2020’, making it mandatory on wearing mask and maintaining social distance.

It has fixed penalty of Rs 200 in Municipal Corporation area and Rs 100 in areas other than the Municipal Corporation areas.