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BENGALURU: Ahead of Unlock 1.0 in the second week of June, CM BS Yediyurappa appealed to the Centre to open up Karnataka as the state government was prepared to handle a surge in Covid-19 cases.
“We have enough beds, testing kits. Only thing is we should learn to live with the virus while taking precautions,” the CM said. The state, at that point, had about 3,221cases.
Cut to July: the Covid caseload is 28,877, the state has not allowed any new economic activities to open and is still mulling curbs. In May, there were about 14,000 beds reserved for Covid patients, currently there are 23,896. Still, reports abound about Covid patients being denied hospital beds, tests, even ambulances.
By the third week of June, the state’s much-lauded Covid-management model had unravelled. The government’s complacency and