2020 coronavirus pandemic in Karnataka
Map of districts with confirmed cases (as of 17 March)   Confirmed cases reported
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Karnataka, India
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Bangalore
Arrival date	09 March 2020 (4 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Confirmed cases	14[1]
Recovered	0
Deaths	1[1]
Territories	Bangalore, Kalburgi

The 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic was first confirmed on 9 March 2020, in Karnataka state. The outbreak has been declared an epidemic in Karnataka, where provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 have been invoked.^[2]

Timeline of events

24 February, IT professional who worked at a tech park (Intel) in the outskirts of Bengaluru and stayed in a PG accommodation. He traveled to Dubai on an assignment on February 15 and returned to Bengaluru on February 20. He attended office for two days - February 20 and 21 - before taking the bus to Hyderabad. His samples had tested positive on February 24 in Hyderabad.^[3]

9 March, Software engineer of Dell, who travelled from Texas on 28 February via New York and Dubai, before arriving at Bangalore on 1 March, is found to be positive for coronavirus. His wife and daughter along with one of his colleagues are admitted to a hospital. The colleague showed flu-like symptoms.^[4]

10 March, The employee of Mindtree came back to Bangalore from an overseas trip. He was tested positive. The Dell employee's wife and daughter too have been tested positive and have been isolated under medical supervision.^[5]

12 March, A 26-year-old man, an employee of Google who came from a trip to Greece, is confirmed to be positive for coronavirus, according to the state health department.^[6] The country's first death due to coronavirus has been reported from Karnataka after the state confirmed that samples of the deceased 76-year-old man from Kalaburgi were positive. The man had returned from Saudi Arabia on February 29.^[7]

15 March, The new case is the daughter of the 76-year-old Kalaburagi man who died last week and was found to have coronavirus.^[8]

16 March, A 32-year-old man, who returned from the US via London earlier this month, tested positive. He had returned from the US via London on March 8 by the same flight as the patient #4 (Mindtree employee) who had tested positive.^[9]

17 March, Three more cases reported- The first, patient is a 20 year-old woman who had travelled to the United Kingdom. The second one, 63-year-old doctor that treated the senior citizen who died recently of Covid-19 in Kalaburagi.^[10][11] In another case reported, a 67yr old female resident of Bangalore returned from Dubai via Goa on 9 March. She is a known case of chronic kidney disease.^[12]

18 March, Three more positive cases reported in Bengaluru. The first, 56-year-old man who returned from the US on March 6. The second, 26-year-old woman who returned from Spain.^[13] The third, 35 year old man who returned from US on March 10.^[14]

19 March, One more positive case confirmed in Kodagu district. In adiditon, a couple returned from Italy to Bangalore but did not disclose their travel history and having evaded protocols travelled back to their home town of Agra.

Cases

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COVID-19 daily confirmed cases in Karnataka

COVID-19 daily confirmed cases in Bangalore

Governmental actions

Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said as a precautionary measure to prevent Corona virus state department of public instructions has issued a late night circular which applies to the LKG, UKG and preprimary sections in all schools, including private, aided and unaided schools to close down on Monday.^[15]

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Friday said that malls, universities and colleges, movie theatres, night clubs, marriages and conferences and other public areas with high footfall will be closed or cancelled for a week, as a precautionary measure amid the growing scare of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).^[16]

The state department of primary and secondary education in Karnataka has postponed the examinations for class 7 to 9 as a precautionary measure to avoid spread of coronavirus.^[17]

Quarantine

A total of 1,345 persons have enrolled for observation and 302 people so far have completed the 28-day observation period. A total of 1,012 people are in home quarantine and 32 in total are currently in health facilities, according to state government data.^[18]

Misinformation

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries in Karnataka has issued a public notification against rumors that the corona virus spreads from poultry. It has advised people not to heed to such social media messages as there is no scientific evidence of corona viral infection in poultry. It is made clear that this virus spread from contact with infected persons only.^[19]

Economic loss

Coronavirus clampdown hits over 1 crore jobs, the government's orders on Friday to close down places of commerce, industry and social assembly to prevent coronavirus cases from snowballing has seen the city devolve into a veritable ghost town in just the first 24 hours of the clampdown. At the same time, the city's purchasing and economic power has also dwindled. As financial experts across the gamut scrambled to decipher the scale of the losses, B T Manohar, a tax expert for Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry warned that the loss of GST and sales tax revenue alone for the state exchequer would amount to a staggering Rs 2,000 crore, if the clampdown lasted for even a single week.^[20]

See also

• 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India

References