Experts back plan to curb entry of unvaccinated to public places

One of the recommendations is to test at least 10% school students every month

In the light of the threat from the new variant of coronavirus, Omicron, the city-level expert committee has made a slew of recommendations. One of them is to restrict entry of unvaccinated persons in parks, theatres, malls and other public places, and testing at least 10% students in schools every month.

The committee members and senior officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, including Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta and Special Commissioner (Health) K.V. Thrilokchandra, met on Wednesday to discuss the precautionary measures to be put in place.