Karnataka. Night curfew extended. Weekend curfew from Friday night 10 pm to Monday morning 5 am for next two weeks.

Essential activities, restaurants, (for delivery, takeaway) will operate in weekend.

On other days, pubs, clubs, restaurants will operate at 50% capacity. All offices operate Monday-Friday

Malls, shopping complexes, shops operate as usual in the week

Theatres, cinema halls operate at 50%

Rallies, protests prohibitied

Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala passengers who come via road, train and flight have to show RT-PCR certificate.

Karnataka lockdown relaxations from June 21 in 16 districts with TPR below 5% (includes Bengaluru Urban)

- Shops open till 5 pm
- Hotels open till 5 pm for dine-in
- Buses and metro to operate at 50% capacity
- Lodges, resorts, gyms allowed at 50%
- Govt/private offices at 50% Districts with less than 5% positivity rate are Bengaluru City (including BBMP), Uttara Kannada, Belgaum, Mandya, Koppal, Chikkaballapur, Tumakuru, Kolar, , Gadag, Raichur, Bagalkot, Kalaburagi, Haveri, Ramanagara, Yadagiri, Bidar.

Karnataka lockdown restriction changes.

In the 11 districts where the positivity rate is high existing rules will continue with no changes.

Chikkamagaluru, Shivamogga, Davangere, Mysuru, Hassan, Chamarajanagara, Dakshina Kannada, Bengaluru Rural, Mandya, Belagavi and Kodagu. In all other districts (including Bengaluru Urban) essential stores will be open from 6 am to 2 pm (extended from 10 am).

Few relaxations announced for factories (work in 50% capacity)

But no change in status of hotels (takeaway only), public transport.

We are attempting to do a reader-funded COVID-19 reporting project for June and July where your contributions will go directly towards long-form stories, ground reports and interviews. This is a video shot during one of the ground reports. You can contribute to the reports through this link - pages.razorpay.com/tnm-covid-19

Karnataka guidelines from 27 April 9 pm to 12 May 6 am.
1. Flights, trains operate (tickets serve as passes for movement)
2. Taxis, autos, cab aggregators will not operate except for emergencies (including taking students to exams)
3. Movement for vaccination, testing allowed. 4. Inter-state, intra state movement of public allowed in emergencies.
5. Schools institutions closed (exams allowed with COVID-19 protocols)
6. Banks, a list of govt offices, health services remain open
7. Airport bus, taxi available,

Hey @DHFWKA The spreadsheet for bed availability is currently down. I am getting an error message "Document not published". Could you tell us what's happening? docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u… It is now redirecting to BBMP's COVID-19 bed availability status - bbmpgov.com/chbms/

Accessed internal reports on the production, availability of medical oxygen in Karnataka. The state has written to Piyush Goyal saying the demand will be 1471 MT by April 30 (projected cases is over 3 lakh). State currently produces 812 MT daily. thenewsminute.com/article/karnat… Status check on the oxygen production, availability situation in Tamil Nadu by @priyankathiru thenewsminute.com/article/how-ta…

Sharing some of the initiatives of the kind people of Bengaluru 💙

https://twitter.com/NishaAnnAshok/status/1384830802765115392

https://twitter.com/darthdevi/status/1384011728439021571?s=20

This photo was taken from outside through a gap in the window. It is a leopard and a dog stuck together since this morning inside the toilet of a house in Kadaba, Dakshina Kannada district. I am told the leopard escaped at 2 pm and the dog is alive! Not the window* it is taken from the top by removing the asbestos sheet. The forest department tried to catch the leopard by removing the sheet and tranquilising it but the leopard escaped.

The dog and the leopard were inside the toilet from at least 7 am till 2 pm.

A lot of people writing to us about doing stories on the African origin Siddi community. We did a deep-dive couple of years ago on the efforts to train them in athletics. thenewsminute.com/article/racing… The Sports Authority of India tried this in the 1990s and later abandoned it. Those involved said that Siddis were taken to cities, away from their home and struggled to adapt.

Hello, Bengaluru. I took the new airport train from Cantonment Station yesterday evening at 5:55 pm. On-board I met Rahul, a 27 year old aircraft maintanence engineer who had a flight at 8:30 pm to Chennai. He was the only passenger on the train who was going to the airport. He was nervous along the way because the train was slower than schedule and there was confusion overall about the new route. The train reached the airport halt station at 7:12 pm, 1 hour and 17 minutes after it left Cantonment Station. (22 minutes slower than schedule).

Officials responsible for the cremation of the 75-year-old woman (COVID-19 patient) from Dakshina Kannada eventually managed to do the cremation only at 2 am today. Locals and MLAs in two cremation grounds in Mangaluru opposed them last night. First, the plan was to hold the cremation in Pachanady but locals gathered there in the night and eventually Mangaluru North MLA Dr. Bharat Shetty pacified the crowd saying the cremation will not be held there at any cost. (The MLA is a medical doctor).

This is the small room in Shaheen School in Bidar where students were taken to for questioning for the fourth (yes, fourth) time by police in plainclothes. I was in the school when police asked students where they practiced, who taught them dialogues, why was a flag used. (1/n) I asked the officer (Bidar DSP Basaveshwara Hira) why it had become necessary to come back to the school for the fourth time. "We are carrying out investigation as per procedure and we cannot comment on it now. We are collecting information about the play," he said.

Marathahalli police has arrived at the settlement next to Sakra Hospital in Bellandur to demolish houses. Police say that a news report stated that Bangladeshis stay here but residents are asking the police to check their IDs before demolishing. At least 50 rooms demolished by excavators this morning, say residents in the area. Residents say police did not inform them in advance or allow them to take their items out but police say owner of the land had been informed.

Starting a thread. I will be moving to relief camps and updating throughout the day.
The relief camp at Maitree Hall in Madikeri requires slippers, groceries, oil, water, steel plates and innerwear for women Contact: 8277303648 Sanswamy.

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Relief camp near Zilla Panchayat Office, Madikeri.
Needs slippers, BP and sugar tablets and warm clothes
Contact Arun : 9448721542