Karnataka Lifts More Covid Restrictions, But An Air Of Caution Lingers

Weddings and family functions can now have up to 100 attendees. Funerals can have 20, up from the earlier 5. Karnataka is easing up the Covid curbs.

Karnataka has lifted many COVID-19 restrictions following a considerable reduction in the number of new infections reported from across the state. Having reported more Covid cases every day than even Maharashtra, the worst-hit state till now, during the peak of the second wave in May, its numbers have declined over the past many days. Yesterday, Karnataka reported only 1,500-odd cases and 59 deaths. From reducing the number of curfew hours to easing of public transport, the state opened up further today, but with appeals to adhere to pandemic protocol. Weddings and family functions can now have up to a hundred attendees. Funerals, similarly, can have twenty, up from the earlier five.