#ISupportCoastalCurfew: Mangalureans pitch for self-imposed curfew in coastal region

Team Udayavani, Jul 9, 2020, 12:04 PM IST

Image: The Witty Human's Twitter Handle

Mangaluru: As the number of cases is increasing in the state day by day, the people of Dakshina Kannada have come together to fight the virus and started #ISupportCoastalCurfew campaign.

The Self-lockdown campaign that started on Twitter has evoked a good response and many people have to retweeted the same in support.

Here are some of the tweets in support to self-imposed curfew

Dear people of coastal Karnataka

Please Retweet this with #isupportcoastalcurfew & help us promote Self-lockown to save our city from the ongoing pandemic. Also please try to follow it and ask your dear ones too. We can fight this together by staying far.❤️? #mangalore #udupi pic.twitter.com/0NopvaraPM

— The Witty Human?? (@LikhithRaaai) July 8, 2020

Self lockdown to knockdown the virus#ISupportCoastalCurfew#Mangalore pic.twitter.com/AfvVQIKG7d

— Keerthi Raj (@keerthi_speaks) July 8, 2020

Let’s stand united in this! Break the chain!#isupportcoastalcurfew Retweet if you support this too☺️ pic.twitter.com/F0thCbPVMJ

— Sharan Chilimbi (@SharanChilimbi) July 8, 2020

Meanwhile, merchants under Bajpe have voluntarily decided to close down business from 2 pm every day from July 8 to 22. Self- lockdown is continuing in the Ullal area.

The Urwa Market in the city and Pakshikere are also under self-imposed lockdown.

As many as 183 tested positive on Wednesday, July 8 out of which five have returned from Saudi, Muscat, and Dubai, one each from Bengaluru and Maharashtra, 25 are diagnosed with influenza-like illness (ILI), four are diagnosed with a severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and 65 are primary and secondary contacts of earlier patients. Contact tracing process of 54 patients is on, 22 are random samples and 5 pre-surgery samples.