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A health worker collecting swab samples at Kempe Gowda Bus Stand in Bengaluru on Monday.
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K. MURALI KUMAR Although experts had warned of the onset of a second wave of COVID-19 in Karnataka in November 2020 itself, the State did little to keep its health infrastructure prepared. As a result, there has been a rapid surge and the situation has gone out of control, say a few experts.
The State’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) had, on November 30 last year, submitted a report to the government recommending that the State should, by January first week, keep ready the clinical facilities at an October 2020 level in terms of beds, ICUs, ICU-ventilators, oxygen availability, vital drugs, and other infrastructure, both in government and private hospitals, including ambulance services.
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Lockdown in Bengaluru is now inevitable, say some experts
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A complete lockdown in Bengaluru has become inevitable now to cut the transmission chain and the State government should consider it seriously, say a few COVID-19 experts. This is because the city’s health infrastructure can no longer take the load. With no availability of oxygen, ICU and ICU-ventilator beds in hospitals, it has become a scary situation, experts opine.
V. Ravi, member, State’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and nodal officer for genomic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, said that with the situation going out of control and cases surging beyond projections, a lockdown was inevitable in Bengaluru.