The Commissioner of Police of Bengaluru, with a mandate from the Government of Karnataka, has issued a memo stating that it will be issuing COVID-19 passes to regulate the movement of people. The circular said that the pass will be issued for two kinds of purposes – one for people and other for vehicles.
Coronavirus: Karnataka govt issues passes to regulate movement of people
Passes will be issued for private security guards, petrol, gas, LPG employees, banks, ATMs, insurance company employees, delivery agents of food aggregator services like Swiggy and Zomato, online pharmaceutical companies, ecommerce platforms, print and electronic media people, staff working for ration or grocery stores, dairies, meat, fish shops, and animal fodder, and staff members of medical establishments, hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, nursing homes, labs, and ambulance services.Passes will also be issued to staff members of telecom and internet services, IT and IT enabled services employees that work for essential services, employees of power generation, transmission, and distribution units, and the staff of capital and debt market services.
Also employees of cold storage and warehousing services, staff members of manufacturing units of essential commodities, individuals engaged in transportation of essential goods, employees of hotels and lodges accommodating tourists stranded due to the coronavirus and earmarked for quarantine facilities.
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