Any person, institution or organisation found violating any of these regulations, shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 188 of IPC

Corrigendum: It was mistakenly reported on Times Now that the Karnataka government had imposed blanket emergency measures in the state. This is not quite the right picture. It’s not a blanket ban. The state government is empowered to impose necessary measures in case they feel that the situation demands so. The misinterpretation is regretted.

Bengaluru: The government of Karnataka has clarified that there is no coronavirus emergency and that schools will remain open.

Under Section 2, 3, 4 of epidemic diseases act 1897 and central act 3 of 1897, the government issued temporary suggestions and instructed the public to take special measures to prevent the outbreak.

These regulations have been called as “Karnataka Epidemic diseases Covid 19 regulations 2020.”

The authorised person under these regulations are director, health and family welfare services, director, medical education at the state level and DCs, DHOs and DSs and all hospital, government and private should have flu corners for the screening of suspected cases of COVID-19.

Additionally, the state government's circular said that if cases of COVID-19 are reported from a defined geographic area such as the village, town, city, ward, colony, settlement, etc., the District Administration of the concerned district shall have the right to implement the following containment measures, but not limited to these, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, such as the closure of schools, offices and banning public gathering, among others:

Sealing of geographic areas Barring of entry and exit of the population from the containment area Closure of schools, offices and banning public gathering Banning vehicular movement in the area Designating any government or private building as a containment unit for the isolation of cases The staff of all government departments shall be at the disposal of the concerned district administration of the concerned area for discharging the duty of containment measures Any person, institution or organisation found violating any of these regulations, shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 188 of IPC, the directive read.

COVID-19 may take 5 days to show symptoms

According to the findings, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimated that people who are infected with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) take five days on average to start showing symptoms of the virus.



The deadly virus has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives globally.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, Karnataka CM has said that over 1,000 people in the state have been identified for observation out of which 446 samples have been sent for testing.