Decision on Karnataka lockdown extension on June 5: CM Yediyurappa
India TV NewsKarnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday said that the decision on whether to extend the lockdown in the state or not would be taken on June 5, two days prior to the current lockdown's end. "No decision has been taken yet in terms of extending the lockdown in the state in view of the improving Covid recovery rate," the CM said after holding a meeting with the Ministers and bureaucrats here. Yediyurappa said that there are demands from various quarters to extend the lockdown but as of now his government is in no hurry to think on lines of extending the lockdown, the decision on which, however, can be taken on June 5, two days prior to the current lockdown's end. Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister C. N. Ashwath Narayan said that around 75,000 vials of Liposomal Amphotericin-B, the drug for the treatment of black fungus infection, have been ordered for the state.