The Karnataka authorities has revised its COVID-19 protocol for individuals coming from Kerala, exempting a set of individuals from obligatory seven days institutional quarantine. It had earlier acknowledged that each one these coming from Kerala need to be beneath institutional quarantine for seven days in view of the alarming rise in COVID instances.

The revised protocol exempted constitutional functionaries, healthcare professionals and their spouses from institutional quarantine. Apart from them, youngsters beneath two years, individuals in dire emergency state of affairs similar to loss of life within the household or medical remedy, brief time period travellers (inside three days), college students arriving to Karnataka for examination together with one guardian every and return inside three days and passengers in transit from and to Kerala through any mode of transport have been exempted, the order stated.

According to the federal government order, all college students and workers ought to compulsorily carry unfavourable RT-PCR certificates that’s not older than 72 hours regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination standing. It clarified that the validity of such certificates is for one week. Meanwhile, state Health Minister Dr Ok Sudhakar stated the state of affairs in Kerala was “scary.” “We are scared of the prevailing situation in Kerala. The number of COVID patients is not reducing. Yesterday also more than 30,000 people were tested positive for COVID-19,” Sudhakar instructed reporters in Bengaluru on Thursday.