<p class="title">People entering Uttara Kannada district will have to compulsorily undergo health screening from May 4.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The outsiders entering the district will have to undergo medical tests. Those who have returned from abroad will be quarantined for 14 days,” deputy commissioner Dr K Harish Kumar told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that treatment for Covid-19 patients would be provided at the newly commissioned Covid-19 ward at Karwar Institute of Medical Science. A team of expert doctors is available for treating the patients. In fact, the doctors from the Institute treated the patients at the Indian Naval Hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Superintendent of Police Shivaprakash Devaraju said that the police would provide security at the Covid-19 ward. Cases would be registered against those illegally entering the ward. Norms would be tightened at checkpoints to screen outsiders entering the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Roshan said a laboratory to test throat swabs would be functional in a week’s time.</p>
<p class="title">People entering Uttara Kannada district will have to compulsorily undergo health screening from May 4.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The outsiders entering the district will have to undergo medical tests. Those who have returned from abroad will be quarantined for 14 days,” deputy commissioner Dr K Harish Kumar told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that treatment for Covid-19 patients would be provided at the newly commissioned Covid-19 ward at Karwar Institute of Medical Science. A team of expert doctors is available for treating the patients. In fact, the doctors from the Institute treated the patients at the Indian Naval Hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Superintendent of Police Shivaprakash Devaraju said that the police would provide security at the Covid-19 ward. Cases would be registered against those illegally entering the ward. Norms would be tightened at checkpoints to screen outsiders entering the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Roshan said a laboratory to test throat swabs would be functional in a week’s time.</p>
