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Those under home quarantine directed to send selfies every hour

Updated on: 31 March,2020 11:12 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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The country is under a 21-day lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has infected 1,251 people so far

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Persons under home quarantine are directed to send their selfies to the Karnataka government in every one hour, failing which they will be shifted to the state quarantine centres, said Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Monday.

"All persons under home quarantine shall send their selfies to the government on a mobile application in every one hour. Failing to do so, teams will reach such defaulters and they will be liable to be shifted to quarantine centres made by the government," he said.


The home quarantine persons will be given an exception for taking selfies during the sleeping time from 10 pm to 7 am. "There will be an exception in this order for sleeping time, from 10 pm to 7 am," he said.



The total number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka climbed to 88 on Monday after five more persons tested positive for coronavirus. Of the five, one is a close contact of an earlier confirmed patient and the others are workers of a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru, from where a person had tested
positive, the state health department said.

The country is under a 21-day lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has infected 1,251 people so far.

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