Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 23 (ANI): Amid the declining trend of the COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, state Health Minister K Sudhakar on Wednesday informed that all government and private hospitals in the state have been instructed to discontinue precautionary COVID-19 testing of asymptomatic patients prior to hospitalisation, surgeries, scanning and other medical procedures.

"This shall also include those patients who were earlier Covid-19 positive and have since recovered and transferred to the earlier non-Covid ward for continued treatment," said the letter that the Minister shared in his tweet.

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However, the letter further informed that the symptomatic patients would continue to be tested, isolated, and treated as per current guidelines.

Earlier today, state Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K said, "Karnataka has crossed 10 crore COVID vaccinations doses today."

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Dr Sudhakar said that to achieve this milestone, the state took 1 year and 39 days. He also mentioned that the state had completed 100 per cent of inoculation of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 93 per cent of the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The state health minister also congratulated all the health workers and the district administration on this milestone. (ANI)

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