The Karnataka government has reinstated stricter control on transit passengers in view of the increasing Covid-19 positive cases. The authorities have sealed many roads, including highways, allowing entry only for those with Covid-19 negative certificates through an RT-PCR test taken 72 hours prior.
It is understood that the district administration in Karnataka also got into action to prevent coronavirus entering the state via Maharashtra, as travelers from Maharashtra who had reached the Karnataka border were sent back by Karnataka police for not possessing the negative certificate.
Goa shares its borders with Maharashtra and Karnataka. There is every possibility of people from these two States and even from Kerala entering into Goa in order to travel to another State as there is no restriction for movement of people from and to Goa.
Closing the border roads and blocking vehicles is against the central government’s guidelines. The Goa government needs to formulate some other method in order to prevent a surge of the Coronavirus in the State. Goa on Monday has seen the lowest number of 29 positive cases in several months. But this should not make us complacent as the second wave of the infection could well be on the cards in the country.
