In the meeting, eight nodal IAS officers were also appointed to help control the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru.
The IAS officers who were named nodal officers are Manoj Kumar Meena (Bengaluru East), Ujjwal Kumar Gosh (Bengaluru West), Dr. Ravikumar Surpur (Bommanahalli), Anbu Kumar (Yelhanka), Pankaj Kumar Pandey (Bengaluru South), Manjula (Mahadevpura), Dr. PC Jaffer (Dasarahalli) and Dr. R Vishal, Rajrajeshwari Nagar. Among them, Pankaj Kumar Pandey was previously the Commissioner of Health when the pandemic broke out in 2020.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa also announced that 1,166 beds have been allocated for COVID-19 in Bengaluru Rural and Bengaluru Urban and that each ward in the city will have two mobile squads. A COVID-Care Centre with 100 beds was opened in Bengaluru’s HAL and Haj Bhavan recently, while one more with 250 beds will be opened at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium on April 5.
The meeting comes a day after Karnataka reported over 3,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day on Sunday. The state reported 3,082 COVID-19 cases on the day, with 2,004 cases recorded in Bengaluru alone. The figures showed a steady climb in COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru and Karnataka over the course of the month.
