As many as 10 passengers who returned from the UK since November 25 tested positive for COVID-19 so far, Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister K Sudhakar said on Friday (December 25). Also read COVID-19: Karnataka takes back night curfew order day after announcement"We can take action only after we get the reports of these 10 positive patients. "After the new variant was discovered, countries like Britain and Germany have adopted stringent measures like ordering lockdown and later enforcing curfew. The state government had announced that it would enforce an eight-day night curfew amid concerns over a new COVID-19 variant spreading in the UK, but on Thursday (December 24), it finally decided to withdraw the curfew just hours before it was to be enforced. Several ministers in the cabinet took objections to the decision to enforce night curfew while the opposition had expressed apprehensions whether it would help in containing the virus spread, considering curfew timing was between 11 pm to 5 am.

Source: dna December 26, 2020 04:07 UTC