Omicron fear in Karnataka: 2 dose vaccine mandatories to get electricity and rations

Omicron fear starts in globally Karnataka health Minister DR K Sudhakar met TAC members Tuesday and hold marathon meeting with officials. The Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has proposed that the state mandate full vaccination for people to take advantage of various benefits, including rations, water and electricity, from the government.

This follows concerns about the potential spread of Omicron, the new SARS-CoV-2 variant of care, and experts urging that all eligible individuals over the age of 18 be fully vaccinated to prevent the pandemic situation from spreading. hand running. TAC members met with Health Minister K Sudhakar on Tuesday and submitted a slew of new recommendations, based on discussions at the 136th meeting on Monday, November 2).

Karnataka has so far covered 91.5% of the total eligible population with the first dose, while the second dose exceeded 60% on Tuesday. As previously reported by TOI, the TAC had also recommended that the government refuse free treatment in private hospitals to people who contract the disease and have not been vaccinated.

They can only be treated in government hospitals. The TAC has also suggested that the government hold special vaccination campaigns in shopping malls, bus stops, train stations, hotels and lodges and at exhibitions. The report recommends that for government benefits such as rations from the public distribution system, electricity, domestic LPG, salaries, pensions, contract award, and even gasoline and diesel in bunk beds, one should be fully vaccinated. Incidentally, the Center has insisted that the vaccine is not mandatory, although it has urged people to take the injection.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday ruled out a lockdown, but said that the state government was taking utmost precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Basavaraj Bommai made the statement amid concerns about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization has designated as a variant of concern.

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The Karnataka chief minister said that the government has instructed officials to increase the number of Covid-19 tests per day. “The [state] health minister will be holding a meeting with officials and experts, the outcome of which will be shared with me, following which we may take certain decisions keeping in view the current circumstances,” Bommai said to media.

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