Daijiworld Media Release - Bengaluru (SHP)

Bengaluru, Aug 20: To ensure the compliance of instructions by travellers, primary contacts and corona-positive patients for stricter home isolation in the interest of public health and wellbeing, the state government has issued an official statement. As per the orders, according to the State Executive Committee of National Disaster Management Act and the provisions of Epidemic Disease Act 1897, people who fail to abide by home isolation rules would strictly face penal action as per relevant provisions of National Disaster Management Act 2005, Epidemic Disease Act 1897 and IPC.

Government of Karnataka has been striving hard to contain the spread of coronavirus infections in the state. The state government has also been issuing several notifications, standard operating procedures (SOPs), circulars, written clarifications for the benefit of the people, health care workers and healthcare institutions amid the pandemic.

The state government has also issued detailed guidelines and SOPs for quarantining the corona-positive people at home, in their apartments or individual houses depending on the availability of a desired independent space.

The guidelines, SOPs, information and communications regarding compulsory home quarantine of interstate travellers, corona-positive cases and primary contacts were also issued by the state government.

Despite the SOPs, guidelines laid down by the state government, it was found that people have neither remained in home isolation nor complied with the orders enforced. The violators have become a catalyst in spiking the number of coronavirus cases and therefore endangering those belonging vulnerable age groups along with causing irreparable damage to society.