The Karnataka government on Friday decided to extend the night curfew beyond April 20 in eight cities of the state, Chief minister BS Yediyurappa said.
Briefing reporters after an emergency meeting with Health and Family Welfare minister K Sudhakar and other officials, Yediyurappa said that the government was looking to extend night curfew to other district centres of the state to contain the pandemic.
Suggestions by experts were discussed in the meeting chaired at CM's official residence in the city. "We have taken no other decision now. We will sit again on April 20 to decide till when the night curfew should be extended," he said.
The pandemic, Yediyurappa said, was going out control. Responding to media queries, the chief minister said that the state had its own reasons for the surge in cases and could.not be compared with other states of the country.
Yediyurappa is scheduled to chair an all-party meeting on Sunday, April 18, to discuss measures to contain the pandemic. The CM has hinted at imposing additional Covid-19 regulations after the meeting.
Karnataka had imposed night curfews from April 10 in eight cities, including Bengaluru and Mysuru, from 10 pm to 5 am in the wake of the Covid-19 second wave. The other district centres where night curfew is in place are Tumakuru, Mangaluru, Udupi, Manipal, Kalaburagi and Bidar.