Compulsory quarantine for 14 days for interstate travellers: Sudhakar

Team Udayavani, Jun 22, 2020, 4:25 PM IST

Bengaluru: Minister for Medical Education Dr Sudhakar K on Monday, June 22 informed that every inter-state travellers arriving in the state will be quarantined for 14 days.

Taking to twitter Sudhakar wrote, “Karnataka is steadily maintaining a healthy recovery rate of 61.39% and the mortality rate remains low at 1.49%. We are continuing to effectively trace all contacts of the positive case within 24 hours and every inter-state arrival is being quarantined for 14 days.”

“Clarification: Quarantine norms for inter-state travellers depends on origin state. For returnees from Maharashtra 7 days Institutional quarantine followed by 7 days Home Quarantine. For returnees from Tamil Nadu and Delhi 3 days Institutional quarantine followed by 11 days Home Quarantine. 14 days Home Quarantine for other states,” he said in another tweet.