Karnataka imposes night curfew in Bengaluru, 7 other cities

The Karnataka government on Thursday announced that there will be a night curfew in some cities in the state from 10 pm till 5 am, starting April 10. The night curfew will be in place till April 20. The night curfew has been imposed in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Kalaburagi, Bidar, Udupi, Tumakuru and Manipal cities in the state. The state has been seeing a sharp spike in cases over the last month with Bengaluru having most of the new numbers. The city has recorded over 4000 cases daily for the past few days. Active cases in Karnataka have now crossed 50,000. Over 50 lakh Covid vaccine shots have been administered so far.

Karnataka is among 10 states besides Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab that have shown a steep rise in the daily COVID-19 cases accounting for 84.21 per cent of the record 1.26 lakh new infections on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry. With 1.29 crore cases, India remains close behind Brazil and well below the United States, which has recorded more than 3 crore infections. India's COVID-19 deaths are above 1.66 lakh, although its fatality rate is one of the lowest in the world, partly because of its relatively young population.