As Bengaluru cases spike, cabinet may take a call on way ahead today

BENGALURU: The state government on Wednesday released a list of 66 fever clinics set up by private healthcare providers in Bengaluru responding to a long-felt need of tens of thousands of citizens. The government has also provided their contact mobile numbers.

The fever clinics were all these days run by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) though a number of doctors from the private sector worked at these centres as volunteers.

Bengaluru Urban reported 173 new Covid-19 cases, with total cases touching 1,124. The sharp rise in the cases in Bengaluru is expected to figure in Thursday’s crucial Cabinet meeting. A section of MLAs in Bengaluru is said to have favoured heightened restrictions, even a brief lockdown, and ministers are expected to give their views at the Cabinet meeting. Health and family welfare minister B Sriramulu on Tuesday had said that the government will consider clamping a lockdown for some time, if the situation deteriorates.


Chief minister BS Yediyurappa has, on a few occasions in the past, expressed himself against announcing any more lockdowns and has been pushing for further easing of restrictions and resumption of economic activities. JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy has demanded a total lockdown insisting that people’s lives are more important than the health of the economy. In a letter to the Ramanagara deputy commissioner, he has called for a lockdown from 11 am to 7 pm in view of the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in Channapattana and Ramanagara taluks.