India
pti-Deepika S
Bengaluru, May 15: The Karnataka government on Saturday decided not to allow home isolation of COVID patients in rural areas and slums in urban regions, and to make necessary arrangements to ensure they get admitted mandatorily in Covid Care Centres (CCCs).
At the meeting of the state’s COVID task force held here today, several decisions were made with regard to ICU beds, oxygenated beds, vaccination, drugs and consumables procurement, black fungal mitigation, and strengthening of health infrastructure in both rural and urban areas.
“In rural areas also COVID infected are currently going for home isolation. It has been decided to stop this immediately and all those infected should be admitted to isolation centres or CCCs for treatment,” Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan said.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, the DCM who also heads the task force…