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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has augmented the number of RT-PCR tests to 6,000 every day.

On Saturday, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar announced that travellers from high-risk countries such as China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand would be required to quarantine for seven days upon arrival in Karnataka.

Due to an alert by the union government over a spike in coronavirus cases in other countries, the Karnataka government will soon start screening passengers at the Bengaluru airport.

According to Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar, the Karnataka government is considering establishing a single-window system to approve private hospitals.

The ambitious Virtual Smart Clinics (VSC) of Bengaluru Smart City Ltd. (BSCL) is likely going to start functioning in the new year.