Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka said on Wednesday that around 3,000 residents infected with the coronavirus have “gone missing” from Be...
Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka said on Wednesday that around 3,000 residents infected with the coronavirus have “gone missing” from Bengaluru, PTI reported. The government has asked the police to trace them, he said.
“We are giving free medicines to the people, which can control 90% cases, but they [those infected with Covid] have switched off their mobile phones,” Ashoka said. “They reach the hospital in a critical stage to desperately look for the ICU beds.This is what is happening now.”
He added: “I feel that at least 2,000 to 3,000 people in Bengaluru have switched off their phones and left their houses. We don’t know where they have gone.” He said it was wrong to go to hospitals at the last minute and said the rate of infection will only increase with such behaviour.
Health Minister K Sudhakar pointed out that this was a problem that Bengaluru had faced since the beginning of the pandemic last year, according to IANS.
“In my more than one year’s experience of handling this pandemic, it is observed at least 20% of the patients do not respond to our phone calls,” Sudhakar told reporters. “Though in most of the cases, police track them down in their...
