Bengaluru, Mar 23: The Karnataka government on Monday decided to purchase 1,000 ventilators from medical devices company Skanray Technologies and five lakh Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), amid rising COVID-19 cases.
Health Minister B Sriramulu convened a meeting with officials to review the situation in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, and with the Mysuru-based firm through a video conference.
"In the meeting, it was decided to buy 1,000 ventilators immediately", the Minister tweeted.
He said the government has already taken steps to buy ten lakh masks, and decided to purchase five lakh PPE.
"The Health Department has been working on a war- footing to halt the spread of the (COVID-19) infections", Sriramulu tweeted.
The Minister appealed to the citizens to strictly follow social distancing.
Six new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Karnataka on Sunday, taking the total number of infections to the respiratory disease to 26 -- the highest number of positive cases in a single day in the State.
The Karnataka government has announced shutdown of all commercial activities barring essential services in nine districts, where COVID-19 cases have been reported, till March 31.
They are: Bengaluru city, Bengaluru Rural, Mangaluru, Mysuru, Kalaburagi, Dharwad, Chikkaballapura, Kodagu and Belagavi, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.
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where is the police . so called protector of common people.
ullal the prime area of communal violence. cctv should be installed everywhere that criminals must be afraid of doing the crime., UT Khader must help on this.
stabbing someone in mangalore became very common. police must take the serious action and soon should catch the culprit. put them behind bars for a lifetime. criminals must not be given second chance,
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