This story is from March 29, 2020

Lockdown in Dakshina Kannada district to continue on Sunday

Extending its Friday’s decision to put Dakshina Kannada district district on 24-hour lockdown from 12am on March 28, the district administration headed by district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari on Saturday said the lockdown will be extended to Sunday as well. Barring essentials –- milk, newspaper, pharmacies and petrol bunks -– all other public institutions will remain shut.
Lockdown in Dakshina Kannada district to continue on Sunday
MANGALURU: Extending its Friday’s decision to put Dakshina Kannada district district on 24-hour lockdown from 12am on March 28, the district administration headed by district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari on Saturday said the lockdown will be extended to Sunday as well. Barring essentials –- milk, newspaper, pharmacies and petrol bunks -– all other public institutions will remain shut.
Announcing lockdown after reviewing the situation with district administration, Poojari said that the administration will revisit its decision again on Sunday.
Appealing to all to cooperate with this directive, Poojari said 210 A grade temples under department of religious endowment that he heads will supply food to migrant labourers and destitute in their respective areas across the state from Sunday itself and order has been issued with immediate effect, he said.
Likewise, honouring an appeal from yakshagana artists – both badagathittu and thenkuthittu who primarily work in yakshagana melas of temples under endowment department sponsored yakshagana melas in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada will receive their salary for the lockdown period. The respective temples will bear the salary from their corpus and this move will benefit around 2,500-odd artists, he said.
To mitigate the hardships caused by lockdown on households, Poojari said administration will launch an app soon using which people can place orders for essential items. Alternatively, one can also call the district Covid 19 helpline on 1077 where they will be given numbers of grocery store nearest to them, which in turn will home deliver essential items. MLAs D Vedavyas Kamath, Y Bharath Shetty, district secretary V Ponnuraj, were present.
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