By Express News Service
KASARAGOD: Manjeshwar MLA A Ok M Ashraf is on a day-long starvation strike to protest towards the Karnataka authorities’s determination to demand RT-PCR take a look at outcomes from totally vaccinated folks.
The Karnataka authorities is violating not solely the Union authorities’s tips on inter-state journey for vaccinated individuals but in addition violating the proper to motion of individuals, mentioned Ashraf at Thalappady, on the border of Kasaragod-Dakshina Kannada districts.
Thalappady on National Highway 66 is a key interstate border. “The Karnataka government’s decision goes against the idea of one nation, one people. It reflects the narrow-minded politics of the government,” he mentioned. It is a disgrace that the Karnataka authorities is discriminating towards the folks of Kerala, notably these from Kasaragod, in a 12 months when India is celebrating its seventy fifth Independence Day, he mentioned.
According to the Union authorities’s tips, RT-PCR assessments shouldn’t be made obligatory for totally vaccinated folks.
The Karnataka authorities is spreading a deceptive marketing campaign that Keralites had been spreading covid in its state, Ashraf alleged. “The state government is creating an anti-Kerala sentiment in Karnataka to divert the attention of its people from real issues,” the Manjeshwar MLA mentioned.
The Karnataka authorities has made RT-PCR take a look at outcomes obligatory for folks coming from Kerala — regardless of their vaccination standing — on August 2. Dakshina Kannada then had 2,948 lively circumstances, with 219 every day circumstances. After two weeks, Dakshina Kannada district has 3,682 lively circumstances of covid, with every day circumstances at 411.
Meanwhile, Kasaragod district — which shares an extended border with Dakshina Kannada — has 6,331 lively circumstances of covid, with 520 every day circumstances as on August 14 (Saturday).
On August 2, Kasaragod had 6,910 lively circumstances, with 703 circumstances reported on that day.
Officially, 1,497 individuals have succumbed to covid in Dakshina Kannada whereas in Kasaragod 927 individuals who examined constructive for covid have died. But the federal government has categorised solely 394 deaths as associated to covid.