Bengaluru lockdown news: Today’s updates | Bengaluru News

In the midst of frequent chaos and the uncertainty about access to essential services and commodities during the blockade, we bring you the latest updates of your city.
*Karnataka the rate of positivity of the test (number of positives per 100 tests performed) in Covid-19 cases is just 1% compared to the national average of 5%. For perspective, Kerala, the positivity rate is 2% and that of Maharashtra is 14%.
*Update 1.20 pm: 69 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Karnataka, counting reaches 2,158
* Update 1.10 pm: Karnataka: the Passengers arrive at Kalaburagi Airport to board your flight

*Update 1.08 pm: First passenger from Ahmedabad subjected to medical consultation at Belagavi airport

*Update 1.05 pm: Hubballi airport staff of the spraying of chemical products in the luggage of the passengers

*Update at 12.50 pm: SpiceJet Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Bengaluru cancelled flight
*Update at 12.45 pm: SpiceJet Bom-Mangaluru-Bom flight cancelled
*Update at 12.44 pm: IndiGo Mangaluru-Bom cancelled until the 27th of May
*Update 12.42 pm: Indigo Mangaluru-Chennai cancelled for today
*Update on 12.40 pm: One more person succumbs to Covid-19 in Dakshina Kannada, the number rises to 7
*Update 12.36 pm: Karnataka| Flights to and from Belagavi-Mumbai, Pune
Update at 12.18 hours: Jubilant Generics, a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru in the Nanjangud, has reopened its doors after two months

*Update to 12.05 pm: Mysuru – Belagavi flight cancelled
*Update to 11.40 am: The first passenger welcomed with applause and cheers in KIA
*ANI update 11.05 am: Until 9am today, there has been 5 arrivals and 17 departures and 9 of canceled flights, at Bengaluru International airport, Kempegowda
*Update at 10.40 am: Passengers departing from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, as two flights have landed until now in the airport. A mother who came to receive his son, he says,”My son of 5 years old, son of Vihaan Sharma has traveled only from Delhi,who has returned to Bengaluru after 3 months”

*ANI update at 10.30 am: The people in Hubli offer Eid-Ul Fitr prayers at your residence, due to Covid-19 security lock. All the mosques are still closed in view of the blockade.

*As the national block, and their extension affected the access to menstrual hygiene products to millions of girls and women, two women from Mysuru to distribute 13,000 menstrual kits for women migrants.
*Update at 9.38 am: India registers biggest day of the dowel 6,977 Covid-19 cases, the total count rises to 1,38,845; number of dead rises to 4,021, reports PTI, quoting the ministry of health of the Union
*ANI update to 9.05 am: Passengers of Air India Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight to say that your flight has been cancelled, without prior notice from the airline. They say,”Only when our boarding passes were scanned at the airport of entry told us that the shipment has been canceled.We don’t know what to do now.”

*Update at 8.45 am: The passengers will be released before the entrance in the terminal building of the airport KIA

*Four police stations in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi districts sealed after police test Covid-19 +ve
*Karnataka on Sunday, reported 130 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of infected in the state of 2,089. The state notched up 1,000 cases as of May 15, and the number doubled in nine days.
*Of the 130 new patients, 105 (or 81%) had a history of travel to other states, while two were international passengers. Chikkaballapur, with 27 cases, accounted for the highest number of cases among the districts, while Yadgir with 24 and Udupi, 23 were close.
*While the number of Covid-19 cases and the number of dead have increased in the last couple of weeks in Karnataka, the silver lining is that the state of the test positivity rate (number of positives per 100 tests performed) is just 1% – well below the national average of 5%.
*With domestic flights to resume on Monday, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru will be the approach to life with 215 flights – 108 departures and 107 arrivals expected.
*With 100 Covid-19 positive cases reported of Chikkaballapura district in the past three days, the number of people infected by the district now stands at 126.