Bengaluru, April 12 -- With experts opining that COVID-19 second wave was likely to peak by May first week in Karnataka, CM B.S. Yediyurappa this morning said that the State Government may impose lockdown if the necessity arises.

"People need to respond for their own good. If they don't heed then we may have to take stringent measures. If required and if necessity arises, we will impose lockdown," Yediyurappa told reporters in Bidar.

Reacting to queries on the growing cases in the State -which saw the numbers breaching 10,000 yesterday - Yediyurappa said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also spoken to him about the measures taken by his Government. "(I told him) we have imposed night curfew in the districts where the Coronavirus ca...