COVID-19

Cargo plane with COVID-19 essentials lands at Mysore Airport
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Cargo plane with COVID-19 essentials lands at Mysore Airport

April 6, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown has stalled domestic and commercial flights. Still the skies are buzzing with regular cargo flights to transport critical medical equipment and supplies. Several small airports in India including the Mysore Airport at Mandakalli have been earmarked as Lifeline UDAN Airports that will facilitate transport…

First Coronavirus positive patient in Mysuru cured
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First Coronavirus positive patient in Mysuru cured

April 6, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst the dark clouds cast by the killer Coronavirus, here is a silver lining. The first patient to test positive in Mysuru has been cured and is likely to be discharged today evening. This positive news comes a day after lakhs of diyas and mobile phone lights lit Mysuru’s landscape following Prime Minister Narendra…

India last night at 9: Lights out, lamps on Crores of people respond to PM’s appeal; light candles, diyas, turn on mobile phone torches
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India last night at 9: Lights out, lamps on Crores of people respond to PM’s appeal; light candles, diyas, turn on mobile phone torches

April 6, 2020

New Delhi: Crores of Indians across the country including Mysuru, Karnataka’s cultural capital, switched off lights at their homes and lit candles and diyas or turned on mobile phone torches last night, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to show the nation’s “collective resolve and solidarity” in its fight against Coronavirus with this symbolic…

Nagamangala and Malavalli declared as Containment Zones
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Nagamangala and Malavalli declared as Containment Zones

April 6, 2020

Mandya: With five Moulvis, who visited Nagamangala and Malavalli in the district after returning from Delhi’s Nizamuddin Tablighi Jamaat testing positive for COVID-19, the Mandya District Administration has declared the two taluks as Containment Zones (Red Alert Zones). The Moulvis are said to have toured Nagamangala and Malavalli taluks for religious campaign after returning from…

Mysuru Railway Division works overtime to convert coaches into Isolation Wards
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Mysuru Railway Division works overtime to convert coaches into Isolation Wards

April 6, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Engineers, technicians, workers and supervisors of South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, are working overtime to convert train coaches into Isolation Wards, providing an ingenuous, clean, sanitised and hygienic surroundings for COVID-19 patients to comfortably recover.  A team of 60 to 75 persons are working in two shifts every day to convert coaches into…

CFTRI provides two PCR equipment to hasten COVID-19 testing
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CFTRI provides two PCR equipment to hasten COVID-19 testing

April 6, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) is joining hands with the District Administration in combating the spread of COVID-19 by making available equipment needed for testing of samples.   COVID-19 infection is at present detected by a very sophisticated and precise technique called Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method which requires extraction…

Jubilant Generics not to open until Corona enquiry is completed: Nanjangud MLA
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Jubilant Generics not to open until Corona enquiry is completed: Nanjangud MLA

April 6, 2020

Nanjangud: Even as Nanjangud’s Jubilant Generics COVID-19 cluster cases have become a cause of grave concern in Mysuru district, Nanjangud MLA B. Harshavardhan said that the Pharmaceutical Unit will not be allowed to re-open until full contact-tracing and enquiry into the origin of the infection is completed. Speaking to presspersons here yesterday, Harshavardhan said that the…

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