COVID-19: BSY announces free ration for all for 2 months
Team Udayavani, Mar 22, 2020, 2:49 PM IST
Bengaluru: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Sunday informed that the government will be giving free ration to all in one go for the next two months as the number of positive cases in the state reached 20.
Addressing media persons he said, “We have decided to turn the 1,700-bed Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru to an exclusive Covid-19 treatment hospital. We are also increasing facilities to test at least 200 out of 10 lakh people. All symptomatic and non-symptomatic contacts of positive patients will be tested.”
Meanwhile the government has also closed the state borders and said that all domestic passengers would now be screened as a precautionary measure against the spread of Covid-19.
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