By Express News Service
KASARGOD: Covid vaccines are not a passport for travelling. The folks of Kasaragod learnt it the arduous manner on Monday. On a day, when the Bombay High Court requested the Maharashtra authorities why vaccinated folks can’t journey on trains, the Karnataka authorities made the RT-PCR check outcomes obligatory for folks getting into the state, regardless of their vaccination standing. The check must be executed not sooner than 72 hours earlier than getting into the state.
On Monday, Karnataka Police personnel stationed on the Thalapady border on the NH 66 turned away a number of hundred folks from Kasaragod, who have been heading to Mangaluru for work. Only college students crossing the border to jot down exams and ambulances with sufferers have been exempted from producing the RT-PCR check outcomes.
When TNIE tried to succeed in Karnataka authorities officers over the telephone, the acquainted caller tune performed out: “The vaccines made in India are safe and effective… so trust the vaccines in India… When your turn comes, do take the vaccines and don’t fall for rumours…” Jawaid Akthar, principal secretary, division of well being and household welfare, Government of Karnataka, additionally didn’t reply to a number of calls.
Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner Okay V Rajendra, who got here to Thalapady, instructed ready reporters that even vaccinated individuals may very well be contaminated and that was why the RT-PCR check was made obligatory for all these coming from Kerala and Maharashtra —the 2 states the place the day by day Covid instances are rising.However, district surveillance officer A T Manoj stated that the speed of reinfection right here (contracting Covid inside 102 days of an infection) is 0.03 per cent, and the speed of breakthrough infections (contracting Covid after having obtained two doses of vaccines) is 0.81 per cent.
In Kerala, those that are absolutely vaccinated aren’t required to stay in quarantine once they arrive from one other state, he stated. Kasaragod MLA N A Nellikkunnu stated that the Karnataka authorities’s choice simply proved that it didn’t belief the efficacy of the vaccines produced in India.
ONUS ON CARRYING PAPERS WITH FLIERS: KOCHI AIRPORT A spokesman for Kochi airport stated the onus of carrying RT-PCR damaging check certificates for passengers to Karnataka lies solely with the fliers. “We have been insisting on RT-PCR negative certificates for passengers irrespective of their vaccination. So, the rule that Kerala has been implementing for some time now comes into place in Karnataka. There’s no excuse for us to complain,” he stated.
Residents protest a number of instancesKasaragod: The native folks on Monday staged protests a number of instances on National Highway 66 at Thalapady towards the Karnataka authorities choice making the RT-PCR check obligatory for all these getting into the state, regardless of getting vaccinated towards Covid. Around 10 am, they blocked the lane from Mangaluru to Kerala saying if Malayalis have been barred from getting into Dakshina Kannada, no automobiles will likely be allowed into Kerala both.
